1. RHC (Rural Health Clinic) Operational Roll-Out - this will financially benefit the hospital and the program will allow for reinvestment into expanding quality patient care in the community.

2. Hospitalist Program - this revamping of the program will allow for reduced costs to provide service and increase quality care.

3. Documentation, Education, and Reconciliation Process pre/post-Cerner - this is to increase our HCAHPS scores, and employee and physician satisfaction and improve quality care navigating into a new computer system.

4. 340b Optimization - this program allows for hospitals with a high Medicare and Medicaid patient population to provide financial benefits serving...

Nightly Native dances have been a part of Gallup’s summer tradition for years, but like many longstanding events returning from a pandemic hiatus, changes are in the works.

As part of the Gallup Cultural Center’s city-sponsored refresh, the formerly Nightly Indian Dances will return for three nights a week at a new arena under construction there.

That’s not good news for restaurant owner James Rich, who’s unhappy that the dances will leave Courthouse Plaza. For years he’s kept Camille’s Sidewalk Café open in the evenings to serve patrons who come to the plaza to watch the dances.

It’s not just that the dances are moving, he said, but that business owners around the...

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Gallup, April 1

A fed-up nurse at Gallup Indian Medical Center called the police after another patient physically assaulted her.

On April 1, around 9:19 pm, Gallup Police Officer Patrick Largo was dispatched to the Gallup Indian Medical Center, 516 E. Nizhoni Blvd., in response to a complaint that a patient had lashed out at a nurse.

When Largo got there he met with the nurse who explained that the alleged perpetrator, later identified as Valencia Arnett, 52, from Ganado, Ariz.,  had been brought in because she was intoxicated.

When the nurse met with her, Arnett was sitting in a wheelchair yelling. She tried to stand up while the nurse was grabbing some...