OEHE Environmental Health Services
The Division of Environmental Health Services (DEHS) is one of 3 programs that make up the Office of Environmental Health and Engineering for the Great Plains Area, Indian Health Service, Office of Public Health.
DEHS is comprised of Sanitarians, Environmental Health Specialists, Environmental Health Technicians, Institutional Environmental Health Officers, Injury Prevention Specialists & support staff. The DEHS leadership and staff provide environmental health consultation to The American Indian tribal governments and Indian Health Service programs within the Great Plains Area (North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Iowa).
DEHS provides a wide variety of public health services and is divided into 3 program areas: General Environmental Health, Community Injury Prevention, and Institutional Environmental Health.
Director DEHS
Tim Wildcat, REHS
Director Division of Environmental Health Services & Area Injury Prevention Coordinator
Great Plains Area OEH&E
115 4th AVE SE
Room 309, Federal Building
Aberdeen, SD 57401
Phone: 605-226-7453
Institutional Environmental Health
Vacant, MS, REHS
Great Plains Area Institutional Environmental Health Officer
Office of Health Programs
115 4th AVE SE
Office of Health Programs
Room 309, Federal Building
Aberdeen, SD 57401
Phone: 605-226-7205
Pierre District Office
Terrold Menzie, BS, REHS
District Environmental Health Specialist
Pierre District Office
420 S. Garfield, Suite 200
Pierre, SD 57501
Phone: 605-945-5428
Services for the following:
- Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Environmental Health Program
- Pine Ridge Service Unit Environmental Health Program
- Fort Thompson Service Unit Environmental Health Program
- Lower Brule Service Unit Environmental Health Program
Sioux City District Office
Connie Giroux, MPH, REHS
District Environmental Health Specialist 320 6th Street
Sioux City District Office, OEH&E
Room 212, Box 19
Sioux City, IA 51101
Main Office Line - 712-252-3988
Services for the following:
- Omaha Tribal Environmental Health Program
- Santee Tribal Environmental Health Program
- Rosebud Service Unit Environmental Health Program
- Wagner Service Unit Environmental Health Program
- Sisseton Service Unit Environmental Health Program
- Woodrow Wilson Keeble Memorial Health Care Center
- Flandreau Service Unit Sanitarian
Minot District
LT Shelby Haddeland, BS, REHS
District Environmental Health Officer
Minot District Office
2050 36th Avenue SW Suite 102
Highland Building B
Minot, ND 58701-3890
Phone: 701-852-0250
Services for the following:
- Quentin N. Burdick Memorial Health Care Environmental Health Program
- Three Affiliated Tribes Environmental Health Program
- Trenton Tribal Environmental Health Program
- Spirit Lake Health Administration - Environmental Health Program
- Standing Rock Tribal Environmental Health Program
