MACT Health Board. operates multiple health care facilities in the four counties of Mariposa, Amador, Calaveras, and Tuolumne. The services are ready to all American Indians and their family members, as well as the general public in the community. Our services are conducted in an atmosphere that respects and supports Native American traditions, values and beliefs.
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Reviews (7)
Stephanie Lammers
Dec 14, 2021
Marianne E.
May 22, 2021
A week ago I took my granddaughter who is 21 years old to this clinic to have a tooth removed. She had very high anxiety and begged for nitrous oxide. That fell on deaf ears. Despite getting several shots she ended up having severe pain during the procedure. At one point the tooth broke, and the doctor is now trying to pry the rest of the tooth out of her mouth while she is in extreme pain.
All the while ignoring her cries for help. In the end the dentist was unable to remove what was left of the tooth and decided to send her to an oral surgeon. I was waiting in the parking lot and as she came out of the doctors office she was absolutely hysterical from the pain that she had just gone through and the severe pain that she is still experiencing.
She was very very traumatized. How could any doctor send a patient away under these circumstances? She is still suffering and still waiting for her appointment with the oral surgeon. A week earlier, my oldest daughter who is 45, also had a tooth removed. Same scenario. Several shots to deaden the tooth but nothing worked. She also experienced severe pain having her molar extracted. I'm beginning to believe that the MACT clinics are not using actual dentists. or maybe they are students or maybe they are dentists who graduated at the bottom of their class.
They certainly would not be successful if they had their own dental practice. I don't know what they are doing. I strongly suggest that you do not go to these places, especially Angels Camp clinic. Both of these girls had the same dentist working on them. Enter at your own risk!
All the while ignoring her cries for help. In the end the dentist was unable to remove what was left of the tooth and decided to send her to an oral surgeon. I was waiting in the parking lot and as she came out of the doctors office she was absolutely hysterical from the pain that she had just gone through and the severe pain that she is still experiencing.
She was very very traumatized. How could any doctor send a patient away under these circumstances? She is still suffering and still waiting for her appointment with the oral surgeon. A week earlier, my oldest daughter who is 45, also had a tooth removed. Same scenario. Several shots to deaden the tooth but nothing worked. She also experienced severe pain having her molar extracted. I'm beginning to believe that the MACT clinics are not using actual dentists. or maybe they are students or maybe they are dentists who graduated at the bottom of their class.
They certainly would not be successful if they had their own dental practice. I don't know what they are doing. I strongly suggest that you do not go to these places, especially Angels Camp clinic. Both of these girls had the same dentist working on them. Enter at your own risk!
Monte C.
Apr 30, 2021
Trisha D.
Dec 11, 2020
The best of the best! This office is clean, professional and honest. Gina Vanderhorst, the dental hygienist, did an AMAZING job cleaning my teeth. This was by far the best cleaning I ever had. She administered the longest and most detailed cleaning I ever had. Not only was she extremely thorough, she has one of the most pleasant personalities, always checking in with me on my level of pain (no pain at all), very punctual, and she was very informative about my gum health.
The staff, including Dr. B, are simple excellent. Thank you Gina, Dr. B (excellent) and the sweet receptionists at Mact Dental Clinic for your extremely professional service.
The staff, including Dr. B, are simple excellent. Thank you Gina, Dr. B (excellent) and the sweet receptionists at Mact Dental Clinic for your extremely professional service.
Paige Vidak
Jun 17, 2020
Tamra F.
May 15, 2020
Jway J.
Feb 09, 2018
BBBBZZZZTTTT Thanks for playing. Like every other Indian Health Services clinic, patient treatment suffers due to untrained and lazy staff, obnoxious supervisors and cubicle-warrior administrations made out of rejects from junior college that think they are God's Gift to Healthcare. IHS says that because clinics are required to take Medicaid and Medicare that they have to have practitioners working there who take it. Nope - all they have to have is one per field in the whole organization.
Agree w the previous poster who says it's nothing more than a cash mill for the tribe consortium that operates it. Staff leave there usually after under a year and practitioners are quick to follow. Other than billing - staff have zero experience with formatting medical records in order to ensure that beneficiaries can get on or stay on various State and Federal benefit programs.
Their lone doctor who accepts Medi-Cal and Medicare either doesn't want to or can't fill out a simple wheelchair form for a bariatric man, clinical staff who supposedly graduated out of their medical program with passing grades have zero idea what a bariatric is and zero clue regarding the necessary adaptations thereto. All the other medical personnel are nurse practitioners - which can't or won't fill out wheelchair prescription forms and run the necessary interference with the required State agencies.
Then when all but one of their doctors only takes cash and nobody in the third-poorest county in the State has any - they whine and complain that their patient roster is empty. Supervisors and managers are equally clueless and when education is provided, they balk and refer issues to their cubicle-warrior equally-ignorant sorry-excuse-for-an-administrator - who refers issues to his Tribal Counsel - who is also ignorant - forcing issues to go back to the IHS to get educated and enforced.
Then when the IHS administration DOES educate - they are slow and obstructive in the compliance dept. Not to mention their whole demeanor regarding non-tribal people leaves a considerable amount to be desired. In violation of just about every healthcare directive in the modern world, instead of having a patient-centric culture - this place has a program-centric view of healthcare that's been out of fashion in the rest of the healthcare world for nearly 20 years. Tribal people may have to tolerate that kind of environment from lack of other resources - but it would behoove everybody else to go to Adventist Health in Sonora or the newly acquired Mark Twain Medical Center by Catholic Health in San Andreas especially once the mandatory Medicare and Medi-Cal acceptance laws go into effect later this year, For everything else - if you want to get decent care by medical staff who know what they are doing - you need to go back to the city like everybody else who moved out here because they got priced out.
The gas or wheelchair van ride down is a lot better than tolerating all these idiots. Suffice it to say - staff, providers and patients as well have apparently been leaving for greener pastures for a long time now and you'd be wise to do the same. These people need to stick to running casinos.
Agree w the previous poster who says it's nothing more than a cash mill for the tribe consortium that operates it. Staff leave there usually after under a year and practitioners are quick to follow. Other than billing - staff have zero experience with formatting medical records in order to ensure that beneficiaries can get on or stay on various State and Federal benefit programs.
Their lone doctor who accepts Medi-Cal and Medicare either doesn't want to or can't fill out a simple wheelchair form for a bariatric man, clinical staff who supposedly graduated out of their medical program with passing grades have zero idea what a bariatric is and zero clue regarding the necessary adaptations thereto. All the other medical personnel are nurse practitioners - which can't or won't fill out wheelchair prescription forms and run the necessary interference with the required State agencies.
Then when all but one of their doctors only takes cash and nobody in the third-poorest county in the State has any - they whine and complain that their patient roster is empty. Supervisors and managers are equally clueless and when education is provided, they balk and refer issues to their cubicle-warrior equally-ignorant sorry-excuse-for-an-administrator - who refers issues to his Tribal Counsel - who is also ignorant - forcing issues to go back to the IHS to get educated and enforced.
Then when the IHS administration DOES educate - they are slow and obstructive in the compliance dept. Not to mention their whole demeanor regarding non-tribal people leaves a considerable amount to be desired. In violation of just about every healthcare directive in the modern world, instead of having a patient-centric culture - this place has a program-centric view of healthcare that's been out of fashion in the rest of the healthcare world for nearly 20 years. Tribal people may have to tolerate that kind of environment from lack of other resources - but it would behoove everybody else to go to Adventist Health in Sonora or the newly acquired Mark Twain Medical Center by Catholic Health in San Andreas especially once the mandatory Medicare and Medi-Cal acceptance laws go into effect later this year, For everything else - if you want to get decent care by medical staff who know what they are doing - you need to go back to the city like everybody else who moved out here because they got priced out.
The gas or wheelchair van ride down is a lot better than tolerating all these idiots. Suffice it to say - staff, providers and patients as well have apparently been leaving for greener pastures for a long time now and you'd be wise to do the same. These people need to stick to running casinos.
