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Zuni Comprehensive Health Center (with hospital) (Zuni, New Mexico) The Navajo Area of the Indian Health Service is partially within New Mexico. It contains the following medical centers: Chinle Comprehensive Health Care Facility (Chinle, Arizona) Crownpoint Health Care Facility (Crownpoint, New Mexico) Dzilth-Na-O-Dith-Hle Health Center ...
Crownpoint (Navajo: Tʼiistsʼóóz Ńdeeshgizh) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) on the Navajo Nation in McKinley County, New Mexico. The population was 2,900 at the time of the 2020 census, [3] up from 2,278 in 2010. [4] It is located along the Trail of the Ancients Byway, a designated New Mexico Scenic Byway. [5]
In 1992, Dr. Alvord was the recipient of Governor's Award for Outstanding New Mexico Women, from former governor of New Mexico, Bruce King. [16] In 1999, Dr. Alvord was the recipient of the American Medical Writers Association the 2000 Will Solimene Award of Excellence, for the publication "Warp and Weft", an excerpt from The Scalpel and the ...
Navajo Nation Health Foundations was run in Ganado solely by Navajo people. In expressing identity in the medical community, the Navajo Nation took advantage of the National Health Planning and Resources Development Act to create the Navajo Health Systems Agency in 1975, being the only American Indian group to do so during that time.
The Navajo Uranium Assessment and Kidney Health Project (NUAKHP) was a congressionally mandated study conducted by researchers from the University of New Mexico and Crownpoint IHS Hospital on kidney functions of Navajo Native Americans who lived and worked near decommissioned uranium mines.
According to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Mexico, Ryntana Yazzie, 34, a member of the Navajo Nation, pleaded guilty to the involuntary manslaughter ...
Borrego Pass is located in east-central McKinley County on Navajo Route 48, 15 miles (24 km) by road southeast of Crownpoint [10] and 16 miles (26 km) north of Prewitt. The town center, including Borrego Pass School, sits at an elevation of 7,369 feet (2,246 m) [ 11 ] less than a mile southwest of the pass proper.
After expanding the school's mission, the Center was renamed Crownpoint Institute of Technology in 1985. The institution was designated a land-grant college in 1994 alongside 31 other tribal colleges. [2] In 2006, the Navajo Nation Council approved changing its name to Navajo Technical College. The institution's name was changed once more in ...