0001| SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 7
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0002| 42ND LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - FIRST SPECIAL
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0003| SESSION, 1996
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0004| INTRODUCED BY
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0005| JOHN PINTO
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0011| AN ACT
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0012| SUPPORTING THE NAVAJO NATION'S REQUEST FOR THE UNITED STATES
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0013| CONGRESS TO INCLUDE FIVE MILLION DOLLARS ($5,000,000) IN THE
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0014| FISCAL YEAR 1997 INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE BUDGET FOR THE PHASE III
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0015| STAFFING OF SEVENTY-TWO FULL-TIME-EQUIVALENT EMPLOYEES FOR THE
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0016| NORTHERN NAVAJO MEDICAL CENTER IN SHIPROCK.
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0018| WHEREAS, the construction of the northern Navajo medical
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0019| center was completed in the fall of 1994, and the center opened
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0020| for operation in February 1995, having been in the planning
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0021| stages for many years; and
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0022| WHEREAS, the northern Navajo medical center was funded and
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0023| constructed to replace a smaller, crowded and old facility and
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0024| to meet the growing demands for health and medical care in its
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0025| service area that has a current population of forty-five
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0001| thousand people but which is increasing annually at a rate of
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0002| three percent; and
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0003| WHEREAS, the northern Navajo medical center opened with the
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0004| same level of staff as the old facility, although additional
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0005| staff had been approved, the effect of which was to allow use of
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0006| fifty beds out of the seventy-five available, solely due to
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0007| staff limitations; and
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0008| WHEREAS, the United States congress and the Indian health
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0009| service agreed to phase in three hundred fifty-seven additional
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0010| full-time-equivalent staff positions over three fiscal years,
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0011| specifically 1995, 1996 and 1997; and
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0012| WHEREAS, although funds were appropriated in fiscal year
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0013| 1995 for one hundred seventy full-time-equivalent positions and
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0014| in fiscal year 1996 for one hundred fifteen full-time-equivalent
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0015| employees, with current budget reductions expected within all
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0016| federal programs, the likelihood of funding for all three
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0017| hundred fifty-seven additional positions is minimal;
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0018| NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
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0019| STATE OF NEW MEXICO that it support the Navajo nation's request
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0020| for the United States congress to include five million dollars
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0021| ($5,000,000) in the fiscal year 1997 Indian health service
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0022| budget for the phase III staffing of seventy-two full-time-equivalent employees for the northern Navajo medical center in
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0023| Shiprock; and
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0024| BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this memorial be
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0025| transmitted to the United States congress.
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