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Our purpose is to provide comfortable, reliable, and safe transportation services for non-emergency medical patients.  This means that if you have a medical appointment in Kingman, Flagstaff, Prescott, or else where we will transport you.

Hualapai Transportation Services Offered:

  • Medical appointments
  • Discharge from health facility
  • Dialysis treatment
  • Dental appointments
  • Optometry appointments
  • Community activities

Steps to requestion Hualapai Non-Emergency Medical Transportation 

Medical Transports:

  • Client notifies IHS Purchase Referred Care Clerk, explains need of nedical transportation
  • IHS Clerk will complete transportation fors and fax to the Health Department’s Transportation office 
  • Transportation manager schedules the transport and assigns driver

Non-Medical Transports:

  • The request for non-medical transport is completed and faxed or brought to the Health Department with the recepit obtained from the Tribal Office after paying the fee of $10/100 miles
  • Transportation manager schedules the transport and assigns the driver

 

PLEASE NOTE:

  • Request thransportation 2 days in advance.Same day requests for transportation may not be honored due to scheduling
  • If you are unable to make the schedules transport, please notify the Transportation Program as soon as plssible
  • Dialysis clients and requests for medical transport take top priority
  • Medical facilities need to notify the Transportation Department directly when clients are discharged

Hualapai Tribe Health Department Medical Transport Description

The Hualapai Tribe, through the Hualapai Health Department’s Non-Emergency Medical Transport (NEMT) Program, provides transport services for medical and Non-Emergency Medical purposes.

Medcial Transport Trips are requested through the Indian Health Service’s Purchase Referred Care office becasue they recieve the appointment or admission information from the medical providers. The purchase Referred Care Office personnel schedule the appointment and give the informatrion to the NEMT Program.

The trips are provided between 8 an and 5 pm Monday through Friday. Saturdays are reserved for Dialysis clients.

 Other types of transports are provided for individuals who do not have a vehicle and whose income is limited. Mdical transports take precedence over other trypes of trips. Those trips include: food, bank, shopping, pick-up/drop-off at various places, medical facilities where an immediate relative has been flown or taken by ambulance. 

There are also trips requested and scheduled for individuals, not financially in need, who need to pick up a vehivle, shop for a program, and other social or program issues that may arise. These trips are available (if there is a free driver/vehicle) between 8 am and 5 pm Monday through Friday. 

 

STAFF:

Kristina Shongo, NEMT Program Manager, Ext 225

Sheilah Navarro, Administrative Assistant, Ext 204

Loulon Kisner, Driver

Viola Gala, Driver

Cotton Koyayesva, Driver

Shanesta Tom-Bender, Driver