Northern Navajo Medical Center

Details

Name :

Northern Navajo Medical Center

Address  :

PO Box 160

Town  :

Shiprock

State  :

New Mexico

Country  :

USA

Post Code:

87420

Phone  :

505 368 6001

Fax  :

505 368 6260

Web URL  :

Not Available

Description

ShiprockNorthern Navajo Medical Center
The Northern Navajo Medical Center in Shiprock New Mexico is located in the Four Corners area of the United States where New Mexico Arizona Colorado and Utah meet The Shiprock Service Unit is the largest Service Unit serving The Navajo Nation and the facility has 55 beds

Approximately 45500 Native Americans mostly Navajo Tribally enrolled live in the Service Unit The daily Inpatient Load is 40 and the daily outpatient volume averages 400 a day Annual OB Cases number 700750 and annual ER Cases averages 1500016000 Multiple field clinics open from 15 days per week each are staffed by Shiprock MDs
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