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Show UNDO Health Division Extends Care On Reservation By Janet Wilcox Blanding . . Come in . B landing. This is Blanding, come in. Joline, would you call Monument Valley for me and ask how Ricky Smallcanyon is? He had a tonsilectomy this morning and his father is askI also have ing about him. several pharmacy numbers I need ordered . . . OK, hold on. Thus the isolated outpost of Mountain receives Navajo much of its medical help and radinformation, via two-wio . Sharon Rogers, clinic nurse out at Navajo Mountain, uses the two-wradio a good deal since the telephone is out about three-fourtof the one of five Sharon is time. Navnurses employed by Utah ajo Health, one of the four divisions of the UNDC (Utah Navajo Development Council). Isolated outposts and rough terrain seem a far cry from what most young nurses must dream about, but the staff with Utah Navajo Health hasnt let that deter their devotion ay ay hs to service. The past 2 12 years an expanding Community Health program has been developing as initiated by the nine-ma- n UNDC council. The Reservations in Utah divided into four areas, each of which is assigned a public health nurse and a Navajo health assistant. Working in Area I, which is Red Mesa and Teec Nos Pos, are Carolyn Woehler and her assistant, Louis Tapaha. Carolyn is from Montana and graduated from Walla Walla College in 1972 as a Registered Nurse. She has worked for the UNDC since February, Vi Hickman (left) and Sharon Rogers Area IV, Oljato and Navajo Mountain, has Sharon Rogers for both its clinic nurse and Public Health Nurse. She, too, is a graduate of Walla Walla University and just completed her first year with UNDC. She likes the unique- ness of her isolated situation out at Navaj o Mountain and doesnt even seem to mind the last 40 miles of dirt road; in fact she hopes it stays that way, she reports. When working out in the field, the Public Health Nurses may visit up to 20 homes a day, if the roads arent too They also check muddy. each week at the schools in their areas on referrals, help with clinics and immunizations, vision screening, speech and hearing, PPD skin testing, and DPT and polio clinics. As they visit the homes in their areas they check on the aged, deliver T.B. medicine, teach hygiene and care of sores and wounds and give help on maternal and child care. Also on the staff is Joline Holt wh o does most of the record keeping and helps with special clinics. She does the secretarial work and is sort of added to it. That same year the Montezuma Creek Clinic was built with both medical The and dental facilities. medUNDC contracts with the ical staff at Monument Valserley Hospital for medical vice flown in to Montezuma Creek three times a week and to Navajo Mountain once a week. Drs. Aston, McFadden and Gabel assist in this service. The dental team from Monument Valley also aids Twice a with dental work. week Dr. Karmarker from Blanding goes to the clinic at Montezuma Creek, also on ing group of health workers is Vi Hickman, who directs the administrative matters of the health program. Director of Utah Navajo Health since November, 73, Vi is very of the service being offered to the reservation Indians and interested in her girls, as she refers to her staff. She was born in Arizona but educated and raised in Utah and has attended both C.E.U. and B.Y.U. She has lived in Blanding since 1967. She credits a lot of the success of the expanding health program to Cleal Bradford, executive Director of the UNDC, for his ability to go out and pull in sources for funding weve needed. The Health division of UNDC operates on an approximate annual budget of $190,000. $80,000 comes from the Navajo Tribe Public Health, $50,000 from the Utah Division of Indian Affairs, and $25,000 from the Utah Division of Public Health (which con-tienti- 2 ous contract. Available funds and a keen interest in providing adequate services make the Utah Na- Health Division a real to the Navajo People in Utah. In comparison, the Arizona reservation lands which are divided into 12 health districts, the Kayenta area has at this present time only one asset to service 12,000 people. registered nurse approximately On the Utah side there is at is specifically designated for T.B. clinics and school use) and $20,000 from the Utah Division of Family Services in fee for services. this writing one nurse per 1,500 Navajos. As Nurse Takeuchi stated, are making real good We a roving assistant. Director of this enterpris- - Area II, Aneth, is visited by A Iveta Brown and Calvin A Iveta has worked Holiday. for three years. is a 1968 graduate of Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City. Area IH, Mexican Water and Mexican Hat, is visited by Kayrn Takeuchi and her asUNDC She sistant, Rena Chee. Kayrn worked last year as clinic nurse at Navajo Mountain. While there she had her first experience delivering a baby. Kayrn also helps with a well-baclinic every Monday from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in Bluff, receiving training from the University of Utah. She is originally from Paradise, Hawaii, and graduated from Loma Linda University in Dr. Nicola Ashton examines Lorraine Benally. by Dr. Dennis Steele, assisted by Lucy Holliday, do some dental work for Brenda Lee. changes and progress. Were just getting started but were really offering better services than ever before. Besides the Public Nurse program which is relatively new, the Utah Navajo Health also operates two clinics on the Reservation. 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