Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Medical Center
El Paso, Texas (El Paso County)
The new facility will address systemic healthcare inequities faced by El Paso’s Native American and Hispanic citizens with construction of a new, state-of-the-art medical center providing medical, dental, behavioral health and community-based services.
The Project
The Ysleta del Sur Pueblo (YDSP) is a U.S. federally recognized Native American tribe and sovereign nation. Their constrained, outdated medical clinic was unable to serve nearly 40% of its low-income tribal members.
The project will construct and equip a new 78,100 SF healthcare facility with a 54,000 SF medical clinic, 3,375 SF community meeting room, 525 SF community kitchen, and 20,200 SF of space for the YDSP Department of Health Services administrative offices.
The new clinic will provide medical services to all tribal members and allow the tribe to expand care to non-tribal residents in the Medically-Underserved community surrounding the Pueblo. The new clinic will offer primary care (adult and pediatric), dentistry, eye care, chronic disease management, cancer prevention, and an onsite pharmacy and laboratory. To treat the whole person, the clinic will provide mental health and social services, including alcohol and substance abuse treatment.
A Public Health Nursing and Nutrition Program will be added to assist, educate, and improve the health of tribal members through health screenings and trainings, supporting case management, and planning/producing educational programs and materials. Additionally, a new Community Kitchen will host instructional healthy cooking classes for the Tribe and El Paso community.
Community Impact
- The project will serve 11,997 unique patients per year by 2028, up from 2,418 in 2019.
- New pharmacy serving 8,129 persons, up from 2,067 in 2019, with prescriptions growing from 17,070 in 2019 to 269,190 in 2028.
- Pediatric vaccinations will be available for the first time.
- Create 88 new healthcare jobs by 2028,90% of which are expected to be filled by Native Americans and/or other racial/ethnic minorities.
- Create 287 construction jobs.
- Hiring of a minority-owned general contractor, with an anticipated 44% of subcontractors minority-owned.
Financing
- Total Project Costs: $51.6 million
- Total New Markets Allocation Secured: $44.0 million
Project Partners
- Urban Research Park CDE
- Border Communities Capital Company
- PeopleFund NMTC
- ESIC New Markets Partners
- USBank Community Development Corporation
- WestStar Bank
- Indian Health Services
- Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and YDSP Health and Wellness Foundation
