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Chief Executive Officer

CEO, Ms. Joette Walters

An advocate for improving quality and access in healthcare, Joette Walters and her Senior Leaders have developed strategic and operational initiatives to foster high-quality, safe and efficient care for patients.

Walters brings over 25 years of health care experience to TCRHCC and is committed to upholding exceptional standards, while expanding to better serve patients. Walters first joined TCRHCC in 1997 and has been Chief Executive Officer (CEO) since January 2023. She served as a mentee under former CEO Lynetta Bonar from 2018 to 2022.

Walters has a Master of Business Administration/ Masters Science of Nursing: Nursing Leadership in Health Care Systems, from Grand Canyon University, and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff.

Prior to becoming the CEO, Walters has held various healthcare specialty positions, including: Telehealth, Medical Surgical, Intensive care, Cardiac rehab, House Supervisor, Clinical Education, and Deputy Chief Nurse & Acting Chief Nurse Officer, Chief Operation Officer, and Associate Executive Officer.

Walters has provided leadership to the Senior Leadership team in developing and executing the strategic initiative and priorities, including accompanying operating and capital budgets, oversight of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Post Go-live stabilization for Sunrise Clinical and Sunrise Financial modules, and other projects.

Walters has maintained relationships with key business partners, including Allscripts E.H.R., Veterans Administration clinic, Sacred Mountain Medical EMS service, John Hopkins Research Project, coordinated with Chief Support Services Officer and Chief Operating Officer in the successful transition of the Sacred Peaks clinic to new facility and expanding health care to Bodaway Gap (temporary) and LeChee.

Along with a team of other health care professionals, she has helped Tuba City Regional Health Care Center earn a nation-wide reputation for quality care, community service, and education while evolving from a federal Indian Health Service hospital to a non-profit health care system on the Navajo Nation.