TIERRA AMARILLA – More than 7,500 feet above sea level, and 75 miles from the nearest hospital emergency room, the quiet town of Tierra Amarilla isn’t just isolated.

“We’re the frontier,” says Darren DeYapp, executive director of La Clinica del Pueblo de Rio Arriba off U.S. 84.

The clinic is the hub for medical, dental and behavioral health care in this sparsely populated area and served 2,405 patients last year, according to federal data. Click here to read the full article posted in the Albuquerque Journal.