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BACKGROUND

Medestar is a health care staffing agency, headquartered in Dallas, Texas,

matching medical health care providers with health care facilities. MACT is a health care

consortium of the Jackson Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California (now known as

the Jackson Band of Miwuk Indians) and the Ione Band of Miwok Indians of California,

as well as several federally acknowledged tribal organizations. The primary mission of

MACT is to improve the health status of the American Indian Native population in its

service area, comprising four counties that give MACT its name: Mariposa, Amador,

Calaveras, and Tuolumne.

2 MACT is a nonprofit corporation formed in 1979. It is governed by a board of

directors comprising three individuals who are: (1) members of federally recognized

Native American tribes; and (2) appointed by the leadership of those tribes and an

advisory council comprised of five individuals who are members of Native American

tribes and appointed by the Native American communities they serve, which represents

all Indian people living in the four-county service area. The board and advisory council

are active in MACT’s administration and management.

MACT…