Flue Season in Northern Arizona

Flu Season Has Arrived

Flu Season Has Arrived Canyonlands Healthcare is offering flu vaccines in seven Arizona community locations. View the Canyonlands Healthcare location in your area. For the Page – Lake Powell area, call the Lake Powell Medical Center at 928.645.8123. The CDC (U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) recommend everyone 6-months-old and older get vaccinated before…

#BeTheOneTo

#BeThe1To Depression isn’t just sadness. Sometimes it’s emptiness or hopelessness. Sometimes it’s struggling to get out of bed in the morning. Other times it feels like the weight of the world is on your shoulders. Read The Warning Signs of Suicide September is National Suicide Prevention Month.  The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is a national…

Rural Clinics

Healthcare for Rural Arizona: One Solution to the Growing Transportation Crisis

Healthcare for Rural Arizona: One Solution to the Growing Transportation Crisis Canyonlands Healthcare provides vital services to ten centers in seven rural Arizona communities. Without our facilities, many residents in Northern and Southeastern Arizona would have to travel long distances to receive healthcare. As America’s baby boomers are hitting 65 at a rate of 10,000 a…

Well Woman Health Check and Canyonlands Healthcare

Well Woman HealthCheck: What You Should Know

Well Woman HealthCheck The Well Woman HealthCheck program helps low-income, uninsured, and underinsured women gain access to breast and cervical cancer screening and diagnostic services. The Well Woman HealthCheck Program (WWHP) is administered by the Arizona Department of Health Services and has been providing women with mammograms, clinical breast exams and pap testing since October 1995.…

Healthcare offered on a sliding scale fee basis at Canyonlands

Upcoming Medicaid (AHCCCS) Change Requires Member Response

Upcoming Medicaid (AHCCCS) Change Requires Member Response Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) is Arizona’s Medicaid agency that offers health care programs to serve Arizona residents. On October 1, 2018, an estimated 300,000 AHCCCS members will be transitioned to the new AHCCCS Complete Care (ACC) system. By making this change, patients will have physical…

Whooping Cough

Canyonlands Healthcare Providing Vaccines for Pertussis (Whooping Cough)

Canyonlands Healthcare Providing Vaccines for Pertussis (Whooping Cough) Symptoms Early symptoms of pertussis are like getting a cold, including runny nose, sneezing and coughing that becomes more persistent. Pertussis is easily spread when an infected person coughs. Children often make a “whooping” noise when they breathe. This disease is most serious for babies under one…

Drug Related Deaths are 45% Higher in Rural Communities

Drug Related Deaths are 45% higher in Rural Communities – HRSA Report The Health Resources and Services Administration recently awarded $3 million to rural communities in eight states to reduce opioid overdoses. Nisha Patel, with the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy at the Health Resources and Services Administration, says drug related deaths are 45%…