Tuba City Indian Medical Center
Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation (TCHRCC) is a 73-bed regional referral medical
center in Tuba City, Arizona on the Navajo Reservation. TCHRCC’s service area is 6,000 square
miles and covers the western region of the Navajo and Hopi Nation.
In 2021, TCRHCC received over 250,000 patient visits a year at the main campus and at satellite
facilities in Flagstaff, Arizona at Sacred Peaks Clinic; LeChee Health & Wellness Facility near
Page, Ariz.; a clinic at Bodaway/Gap, Cameron, and the Kaibeto Creek Independent Living
Center. A mobile health program also travels to remote corners of the service area that includes
Hopi and San Juan Paiute reservations with services varying at each site.
TCRHCC is an acute care facility, an outpatient clinic, and since 2016 has been the only Level
III Trauma Center serving Native Americans outside of Anchorage, Alaska. TCRHCC provides
numerous medical services, such as comprehensive inpatient/outpatient emergency services,
ophthalmology, orthopedics, OB/GYN, oral surgery, urology, comprehensive primary care,
dental, behavioral health, and ancillary services. For a complete list, visit this page here.
In 2019, a specialty care center, which houses the only cancer center on Navajo, was built that
provides oncology services and treatment. And in 2011, a three-story outpatient clinic with a 24-
hour a day pharmacy was built at the main hospital.
The current medical staff consists of 106 physicians that includes dentists, optometrists, trauma
surgeons, podiatrist, physical therapist, plus 43 staff mid-levels, 19 pharmacists, and 4 dieticians.
TCRHCC has received the Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval and accreditation for
Acute Hospital, Home Care, Laboratory, and Primary Care Medical Home (PCMH)
Certification. The Joint Commission is the nation’s oldest and largest standards-setting and
accrediting body in health care. To earn and maintain The Gold Seal of Approval® from The
Joint Commission, an organization must undergo an on-site survey by a Joint Commission
survey team at least every three years.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued TCRHCC an overall three-star
rating and two stars out of five for patient experience in 2021. CMS measures five areas of
quality for 4,500 eligible hospitals around the country.
TCRHCC was initially a 65-bed U.S. Public Health Service hospital built in 1954 and known as
the Tuba City Indian Medical Center. It was part of the Navajo Area Indian Health Service. In
1975, the present 73-bed hospital was completed, and the initial 1954 building that housed the
Tuba City Indian Medical Center was converted to administrative offices, support services,
facility maintenance, audiology, and other programs.
In 2002, Tuba City Indian Medical Center became a P.L. 93-638 health care facility and renamed
the Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation. Today, TCRHCC has nearly 1,000 total
employees and is guided by a ten-member governing body that includes representation from the
Hopi village of Moencopi, the San Juan Southern Paiute tribe, and Navajo communities within
the 6,000-acre service area.
The mission of TCRHCC is to provide safe, accessible, quality, and culturally sensitive
healthcare. The vision is: “to heal, to respect, to console.”
The following value statement has been adopted:“We take pride and honor the dignity in all individuals. We promise to uphold a safe environment, dedicated to quality, and a vision of excellence for today and tomorrow.”
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167 North Main Street
Tuba City, Arizona 86045
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