SANTA ANA PUEBLO — The Pueblo of Santa Ana will be the site of a new tribal health center meant to address capacity issues at an existing center in Albuquerque and a decades-old backlog of similar facilities not yet built.
Indian Health Services, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will spend $22 million to design the project, known as Albuquerque Indian Health Center West. The new health center, with a total price tag of $251 million, located just north of the Santa Ana Golf Club, would add to the existing Albuquerque Indian Health Center near the University of New Mexico.
Representatives of the pueblo, the department, IHS and other dignitaries made the announcement Friday at a news conference at the Prairie Star Restaurant at the Santa Ana Golf Club before providing a guided tour of the proposed site…