Health

The Fort Defiance Indian Hospital Board on March 24 celebrated its 15th anniversary of becoming a Public Law 93-638 health care facility.

In a concerted effort to understand and address the public health needs of the Tuba City Service Area, the Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation’s 2024 Community Health Assessment and Needs Survey has been completed. This survey yields significant data that will shape future health initiatives and programs.

Every Monday and Tuesday, Muriel Goldtooth, a 46-year-old mother of two, experiences nosebleeds as a side effect of her weekly chemotherapy treatments at Tuba City Regional Health Care’s Specialty Care Center. “That’s on my good days when my condition is somewhat normal,” she shares with a smile.

Every Tuesday and Wednesday, the Northern Navajo Medical Center’s Public Health Nursing and Sih Hasin Street Medicine teams load their white Ford transit van full of rapid tests, penicillin, wound care, food, water, socks, feminine hygiene products, condoms, medicine, and other necessities to test and treat relatives experiencing homelessness for syphilis and other sexually transmitted infections in the northern parts of New Mexico

One of many organizations initiating an end to HIV/AIDS in Arizona is the Phoenix-based nonprofit Aunt Rita’s Foundation, with avid members paving the way.