{"id":17371,"date":"2022-03-14T14:56:54","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T18:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/covid19\/?p=17371"},"modified":"2022-03-14T15:08:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T19:08:08","slug":"navajo-nation-arizona-new-mexico-utah-826","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/2022\/03\/14\/navajo-nation-arizona-new-mexico-utah-826\/","title":{"rendered":"Navajo Nation (Arizona, New Mexico, Utah)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17375\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17375\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17375\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/14\/navajonationjillbiden.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Jill Biden on Navajo Nation\" width=\"1280\" height=\"858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/14\/navajonationjillbiden.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/14\/navajonationjillbiden-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/14\/navajonationjillbiden-1024x686.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/14\/navajonationjillbiden-768x515.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17375\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez, Navajo Nation First Lady Phefelia Nez, Dr.<br \/>Jill Biden, and health industry leaders at the House of Hope in Tuba City, Arizona on May, 22, 2019. Photo courtesy Navajo Nation Office of President and Vice President<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The&nbsp;Navajo Nation&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Office of the President and Vice President<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/strong><br \/>\nMarch 14, 2022<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Federal spending bill provides $8 million for the Tuba City&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>long-term care and skilled nursing and cancer treatment center<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>WINDOW ROCK, Arizona<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;\u2014<\/strong>&nbsp;Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and Vice President Myron Lizer commend the recent approval by Congress and U.S. President Joe Biden of $8 million to help develop long-term care and skilled nursing services and support for the existing cancer treatment center at the Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation on the Navajo Nation. The funding was included in the $1.5 trillion spending bill, signed into law on Friday, to fund the federal government through the remainder of FY2022.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very pleased with the collaboration and combined support of our congressional delegation, Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation, Navajo Nation Washington Office, and many others to secure this much-needed funding to help develop long-term care services for our Navajo elders and to support the first-ever cancer treatment that was established on tribal lands within the Navajo Nation. This historic funding allocation is the very first federal investment in tribal based cancer care. We had the honor of joining First Lady Dr. Jill Biden for a visit to the cancer treatment center and now we are pleased to support the Biden-Harris Administration\u2019s efforts to reignite the Cancer Moonshot mission to end cancer. The Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation board, CEO, and staff members continue to do great work to help our communities\u201d said Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez.<\/p>\n<p>The expansion of the current cancer treatment center means that, in addition to hematology treatment, the specialty care clinic will now move a step closer to providing radiation oncology treatment so that cancer patients can receive the services closer to home rather than having to travel off of the Navajo Nation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive  embed-responsive-16by9\"><div class=\"iframe-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"embed-responsive-item\"   title=\"TCRHCC Priority for Cancer Treatment\u2013 Going the Distance: For Life\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uH2MNo_o4_U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p>In 2019, President Nez and First Lady Phefelia Nez welcomed U.S. First Lady, Dr. Jill Biden, and the Cancer Support Community to Tuba City, Ariz. to visit the first cancer treatment center in all of Indian Country, which developed through partnerships with the&nbsp;Barbara Bradley Baekgaard Family Foundation, Biden Cancer Initiative, Eisai, Merck, and Pfizer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe commend the Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation board and CEO Lynette Bonar for forging new partnerships with universities, health care companies, and health industry professionals to garner support for the&nbsp;cancer&nbsp;treatment center to provide chemotherapy, support groups, and other much needed services for Navajo people who suffer from various types of&nbsp;cancer.&nbsp;Many hands were laid to this great work and we fully support this successful effort to fight cancer and help save more lives,\u201d stated Vice President Lizer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation, located nearly 80 miles northeast of Flagstaff, Ariz., provides comprehensive inpatient and outpatient emergency services, dental and ophthalmology services, orthopedics, OB-GYN, oral surgery, eye surgery, and urological procedures.&nbsp;The Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President continues to support the ongoing efforts of the&nbsp;Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation to fully establish long-term skilled nursing services and to construct a new hospital facility to replace the current hospital constructed in 1975.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NezLizer2018\/posts\/507585454069817<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation will be receiving $8 million to develop long-term care and skilled nursing services and to support cancer treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[596,12,249,8,10,85],"class_list":["post-17371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tribes","tag-appropriations","tag-arizona","tag-cancer","tag-navajo","tag-new-mexico","tag-utah"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/14\/navajonationjillbiden.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17371"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17376,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17371\/revisions\/17376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}