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MDIG providing radiology services to Sage Memorial Hospital
Posted on: 04/13/2011
MDIG is pleased and excited to announce that we will begin providing radiology services to Sage Memorial Hospital beginning June 1st, 2011.
Sage Memorial Hospital is located in the community of Ganado, in rural Apache County, in the northeastern corner of Arizona.
Sage Memorial Hospital has been a Critical Access Hospital since December 1, 2002.
The Navajo Health Foundation/Sage Memorial Hospital is a 25-bed, not-for-profit hospital. It is
unique among Arizona’s Critical Access Hospitals for two reasons. First, on February 4, 1920,
President Woodrow Wilson signed an Interior Department Order that permanently assigned 104
acres of Arizona land to the Women’s Board of Home Mission of the Presbyterian Church. The
church built Sage Memorial Hospital upon that acreage, and it has remained there since. Second,
after seven decades of oversight, the Presbyterian Church mission turned over hospital operation
and management to the Navajo Health Foundation in July 1974, making Sage the nation’s first
Native-managed comprehensive health care system.
The Navajo Nation surrounds the 104-acre medical campus. The Navajo Nation is the largest
Native American community in both land (27,000 square miles) and population (300,000 tribal
members). The hospital’s Board of Trustees is elected to serve through tribal Chapter Houses
located in the hospital’s service area. Since 1974, this predominantly Navajo Board of Directors
and staff have worked with great dedication to overcome health problems unrivaled anywhere in
the nation.
Hospital services include an emergency department, physician services, nursing services, surgery
and anesthesiology, radiology and teleradiology, telemedicine, obstetrics and gynecology,
pharmacy, physical rehabilitation, outpatient clinics, a diabetes clinic, laboratory, dental clinic,
surgery and anesthesiology, obstetrics and gynecology, social services, and a behavioral health
clinic.
The Navajo Health Foundation/Sage Memorial Hospital delivers quality healthcare services
mostly to Navajo members in its catchment area, defined in agreement with the Indian Health
Services as the eight local chapters that add up to about 18,000 people on 1,500 square miles.
Sage Memorial Hospital
Arizona 264 & US 191 Junction
Ganado, AZ 86505
(928) 755-4500
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