{"id":753944,"date":"2026-07-10T04:11:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T04:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/753944\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T04:11:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T04:11:16","slug":"cherokees-complete-new-w-w-hastings-hospital-in-tahlequah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/753944\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherokees complete new W.W. Hastings Hospital in Tahlequah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            TAHLEQUAH, Okla. &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>The Cherokee Nation celebrated the completion of a new $470 million W.W. Hastings Hospital in Tahlequah, after three years of construction on the new cornerstone of the Cherokee healthcare system. <\/p>\n<p>The new hospital has 127 beds, adding neonatal intensive care, an expanded emergency room and surgery center, a catheterization lab, with nuclear medicine to be added soon. The hospital has 700 employees, who will begin taking patients in the new building on Saturday at 6 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"AnchorLink\" href=\"#image-ac0000\" id=\"image-ac0000\" name=\"image-ac0000\"\/><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"Dr. Stephen Jones, Cherokee Health Service CEO\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783656675_711_.webp\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>    Dr. Stephen Jones, Cherokee Health Service CEO<\/p>\n<p>PHOTO: Emory Bryan, News on 6 <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Stephen Jones, the CEO of Cherokee Health Services, said, \u201cWe\u2019ve been working on this transition for over a year, practicing, and now it\u2019s game time. So all this practice culminates to Saturday morning, 6 a.m. Patients start getting transferred. And that\u2019s when these doors will start being open for business. And we\u2019re looking so forward to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Situated on the east end of the Cherokee Health Services campus, Hastings is the largest tribal hospital in the United States, anchoring a growing healthcare ecosystem that includes new clinics in outlying communities across the Cherokee Nation. The tribe will break ground in August on a new $400 million clinic in Claremore, after assuming operations of the former Indian Health Service facility there.<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"AnchorLink\" href=\"#image-130000\" id=\"image-130000\" name=\"image-130000\"\/><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin, Jr. speaks to media at opening of W.W. Hastings Hospital\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783656676_484_.webp\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>    Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin, Jr. speaks to media at opening of W.W. Hastings Hospital<\/p>\n<p>PHOTO: Emory Bryan, News on 6 <\/p>\n<p>Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. said the building was only possible because Cherokees carefully matched the surge of federal money for COVID relief with business income to build a healthcare system patients want to use\u2014and thus help sustain it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are operating the finest health system in Indian country. We are setting the standard,\u201d he said. \u201cThe federal dollars don\u2019t pay for the level of construction that you\u2019re seeing. If we waited around for the federal government to take care of us, you wouldn\u2019t see this campus. But we\u2019re the Cherokee Nation. We\u2019re very ambitious. And we\u2019ve matched that ambition with our own resources.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Jones said the expanded facility in Tahlequah would open up new opportunities for surgical and obstetric residencies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we\u2019re building here is a pipeline of workforce development,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve already got a medical school. We\u2019re bringing a nursing school here. We\u2019re growing our workforce in the same process that we\u2019re growing our capital improvements.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAHLEQUAH, Okla. &#8211; The Cherokee Nation celebrated the completion of a new $470 million W.W. 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