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ARIZONA STATE SENATE
Fifty-Seventh Legislature, First Regular Session
appropriation; Sage memorial hospital; dialysis
Purpose
Appropriates $3 million from the state General Fund (state GF) in FY 2026 to the Department of Health Services (DHS) to distribute to the Sage Memorial Hospital (Hospital).
Background
The Hospital services a community of approximately 23,000 as the sole provider of healthcare services within its service area, providing health care services to residents of the Ganado, Kinlichee, Klagetoh, Wide Ruins, Lower Greasewood Springs, Cornfields, Nazlini and Steamboat chapters of the Navajo Nation. The Hospital is a 25-bed inpatient facility that offers radiology, pharmacy and telemedicine services and includes a 24/7 emergency room. Specialized clinics also serve the community, including a dental clinic, diabetes clinic and a behavioral health clinic (Sage Memorial Hospital; University of Arizona).
Dialysis is a type of medical treatment that helps the body remove extra fluid and waste products from an individual's blood when the kidneys are unable to. Dialysis performs some of the duties that the kidneys usually do to keep the body balanced, including preventing waste and fluid buildup, maintaining safe mineral levels in an individual's blood and helping to regulate blood pressure. Dialysis can be done in a hospital, a dialysis center or at home (National Kidney Foundation).
S.B. 1575 appropriates $3 million in FY 2026 from the state GF to DHS for the Hospital.
Provisions
1. Appropriates $3 million from the state GF in FY 2026 to DHS to distribute to the Hospital to construct and operate a dialysis unit.
2. Prohibits the appropriation from lapsing.
3. Becomes effective on the general effective date.
Prepared by Senate Research
February 17, 2025
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