Health

Eight graduates were recognized for completing the Navajo Nation Emergency Medical Service Academy during a ceremony on Sept. 4, 2025.

This year marks the 95th anniversary of Sage Memorial Hospital operating in Ganado, Arizona. The staff of the Navajo Health Foundation, the non-profit that operates Sage Memorial Hospital, is celebrating with an event to honor and explore the history of the institution that began as a four-room adobe mud building and has now grown to a 177 million-dollar, 140,200 square-foot facility with 25 hospital beds that serves more than 25,000 people.

From crumbling hospitals to suicide prevention training, the Navajo Area Indian Health Service is juggling urgent health needs, outdated infrastructure, and ambitious efforts to strengthen its medical workforce across the Nation.

Tółikan Chapter recently shared a heat safety advisory from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on its social media page. The advisory urges residents with heart disease to take precautions as summer temperatures intensify across the Southwest.

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