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Albuquerque VA Medical Center UNM Hospital, Alququerque Lovelace Health System [ 3 ] The Heart Hospital of New Mexico at Lovelace Medical Center, 55 staffed beds ( 35°05′16″N 106°38′13″W / 35.087687°N 106.637064°W / 35.087687; -106.637064 ( Heart Hospital, Lovelace Medical Center
The Indian Health Service (IHS) is an operating division (OPDIV) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). IHS is responsible for providing direct medical and public health services to members of federally recognized Native American Tribes and Alaska Native people .
Josephine Waconda (née Trujillo; February 5, 1935 – January 1, 2013) was an American nurse and an administrator of the Indian Health Service.She was a member of Pueblo of Laguna tribe and the first Native American to attain the rank of rear admiral of the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (PHSCC), when she was promoted in 1987 to head the regional Albuquerque office of the Indian ...
If you qualify for Indian Health Services and for Medicare, you can use both at the same time. Learn how to qualify, enroll, and use Medicare coverage alongside IHS.
More than 50 people — adults and children, families and people on their own — lined up outside the Albuquerque Indian Center Wednesday before the doors opened at 11 a.m. for dinner.
The Mental Health Center originally opened in 1969. The UNM Cancer Center was established in 1975, and is currently the only NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center in the state of New Mexico. [ 5 ] In addition, Carrie Tingley Hospital - which was originally founded in Hot Springs in 1937 as a hospital for crippled children - moved to Albuquerque in ...
Oct. 29—PUEBLO OF ISLETA — Isador José Jaramillo was sent to Albuquerque Indian School in 1949, where he stayed for 11 years. Decades after the Pueblo of Isleta member left Albuquerque Indian ...
Michael H. Trujillo (born 1944) is an American physician who was the first full-blooded Indigenous person to serve as the director of the Indian Health Service, the arm of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, which deals with the health of Native Americans and Native Alaskans.