Blue Mountain Hospital 

801 South 200 West Blanding, UT 84511

• Navajo Health Systems Facility

• Work with an Indigenous patient population

• Inpatient medicine (mostly adult, some peds including deliveries)

• Outpatient medicine (pediatrics, adults, psych)

• ER (24-hour emergency room) and urgent care

• Home health visits

• Procedures: inpatient (paracentesis, thoracentesis, central lines, LP)

Schedule and Hours

• Days off: Saturday and/or Sunday, depending upon involvement with inpatient care

•  Holidays: Off

•  Hours: Must log daily hours in MedHub

• Dress: Professional with White Coat

Local Food:

• Patio Diner

• Yak's Cafe

• Homestead Steakhouse 

• Pop's Burritos 

Places to go/Activities:

• The Dinosaur Museum 

• Edge of the Cedars State Park Museum

• Four Corners

•  The Dinosaur Museum 

• Natural Bridges National Monument 

• Monument Valley 

• Cedar Mesa 

• San Juan River

• Goosenecks State Park

• Canyonlands National Park 

• Moab 

• Arches National Park

Because case volume is lower in rural areas, it's important to be proactive and take opportunities as they come. Introduce yourself to people and request to be notified if possible when things come up (procedures, important cases, etc.). We want this rotation to be high-yield. 

Contact your clinic for rescheduling or cancelling of clinic as soon as this elective is approved. Indicate status of clinic on your Elective Request Form.

Attend any specific conferences or meetings as directed by your onsite Attending. You are excused from IM Morning Report, Noon Conference and Grand Rounds during this rotation.

The Med-Peds Rural Pathway Project Manager will assist you with the following steps below. They can be reached at hailey.haffey@hsc.utah.edu. 

Housing/travel/paperwork

• If housing is needed, work with Med-Peds team on housing preferences and check in/out dates.

• Submit any additional paperwork requested by sites back to the Return and/or the Med-Peds Project Manager as requested (gme.return@hsc.utah.edu/hailey.haffey@hsc.utah.edu) at least 2 weeks before rotation.

• Save all mileage receipts and submit mileage reimbursement form within 20 days of Rotation completion.

• Complete Rotation evaluation surveys. 

 Elective Request Form on Medhub

Off-site Elective Form to GME