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Northern Arizona Healthcare now operates the Verde Valley's first hospice house at 421 N. Willard St. in Cottonwood. The home is staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week by compassionate, personal caregivers who are trained by Northern Arizona Hospice, a service of Northern Arizona Healthcare.

Where can you get a flu shot, see a Pediatrician when your child is sick and get an affordable reproductive health exam? At the same place that inspects restaurants for safe food practices, traps mosquitoes to test for West Nile virus and makes home visits to see newborn babies with medi-cal problems.

After nearly 50 years of service to the Verde Valley and Sedona communities, the Verde Valley Guidance Clinic has become Spectrum Healthcare. C. E. O. Robert Cartia says the new name better reflects the organizations' scope of services, including primary medical care.
Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCS) is Arizona's Medicaid health care program. To apply, call the Family Assistance Administration: 928-649-6800.
Seniors over age 65 who need a nursing home level of care have options, according to Arizona Long Term Care Services of Cottonwood. Many ALTCS participants live in their own homes or in an assisted living facility and receive needed in-home services.

Cardiology patients at Verde Valley Medical Center receive life-saving diagnostic procedures and interventional cardiovascular care at a sophisticated cardiac catheterization laboratory, known as the cath lab. The lab's sophisticated equipment allows physicians to diagnose and treat cardiovascular patients using minimally invasive procedures.