Changes at RMCHCS

Elective surgeries and most non-urgent health services will be put off due to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s executive order March 25. Lujan Grisham says the decision is to protect the state’s supply of equipment that workers need in order to stay safe from COVID-19.

That order caused some re-evaluation at Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services. RMCHCS will decide on procedures on a case by case basis.

“With this new rule in effect, it affects our finances. As we approach the difficult financial challenges COVID-19 imposes on us, like many other businesses across the globe, we are taking prudent financial steps which make sense,” RMCHCS CEO David...

Need the public’s help

Few things can rattle a community like a person going missing. The idea that someone can disappear without a trace and no information about what happened to them can cause a whirlwind of emotions: hope that they will be found safely; worry that no one knows where they are; fear that a bad fate has befallen them.

For long-time residents of Gallup and surrounding areas, those feelings have plagued them for over three decades. April 6 marked the 34th anniversary of the day 9-year-old Anthonette Cayedito was taken from her home in the middle of the night.

Despite a bevy of tips and leads that have come up in the years since, the fate of Cayedito is still...

The newest version of the Joint Powers Agreement between the City of Gallup and McKinley County for the Liquor Excise Tax was presented to the Board of Commissioners during their April 7 meeting.

The state statute that enables the county to have the LET, requires the county to have the agreement with municipalities in the county. The only municipality within McKinley County is the City of Gallup.

In Nov. 2019, an ordinance regarding the LET was voted on by McKinley County voters, asking if they think the county should continue to impose the LET at the maximum amount of six percent, as allowed by state law.

The ordinance was adopted with 79 percent of voters in favor of keeping the...

Hiroshi Miyamura High School is the focus of attention for people from FEMA, to the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, to the New Mexico Emergency Operations Center, to the Navajo Nation, to the Rehoboth McKinley Christian Medical Center as it has been designated as the site for a field hospital for between 50 and 60 COVID-19 patients.

Justin Graff, Public Affairs Chief for the USACE – Albuquerque District, said the gymnasium has been selected as the location for the beds.

The USACE has been given 14 days to have the rooms up at the school. Graff describes them as plastic wall pod-style cubicles located on the gym floor with direct line of site between the pods and the nurse’s...