McKinley County. Someone went warm and quiet on the drive in on I-40. I do not want a waiting room.
Where in New Mexico are you, and how do they look?
Home in Gallup now. No trouble breathing. Still talking in full sentences.
If this fits, a plan can go to a pharmacy in New Mexico. If someone needs to be seen in person, I will say so before you pay.
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NPCWoods is a $59 text visit with Chris Woods, MSN, APRN, FNP-C, AGACNP-BC, a nurse practitioner. Text (480) 639-4722. No video. No waiting room. You must be physically in New Mexico during the visit. A parent or guardian runs a visit for a kid. A prescription is not promised. You only pay if he can treat you.
$59
Flat fee, no surprises
No video
Text from where you stand
New Mexico
You must be physically here
Written and clinically reviewed by Chris Woods, MSN, APRN, FNP-C, AGACNP-BC, nurse practitioner and founder of NPCWoods.
For a sick hour in McKinley County, when you would rather text from Gallup, from Thoreau, or from the road on I-40 than sit in a waiting room. Not an official visitor page. About Chris · Credentials, NPI, and licenses
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Red Rock Park, east of Gallup
The red rocks still stand east of town. The waiting room is not the day.
Photo: dconvertini, 18 May 2024, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Red Rock Park, east of Gallup, McKinley County, New Mexico. The same photograph is the full-page background. This is not an official visitor page and not a partnership.
Gallup is the county seat and the county’s only city, on I-40 and old Route 66. It has two 24-hour emergency rooms, at Rehoboth McKinley Christian Hospital and the Gallup Indian Medical Center. From Thoreau, the drive west on I-40 to the emergency room in Gallup is about 33 miles. Someone with you is warm, dizzy, or hoarse, and a waiting room would spend the hour you meant for the road or for town. Text from where you are standing and keep the day: it is a $59 visit, and meds go with you only if a prescription fits.
How a sick hour here shows up
Same $59 text. Still in McKinley County.
Out on I-40
Someone went quiet on the drive across the county. Text the timeline before you give the hour to a waiting room.
In Gallup
A throat or a stomach that showed up in town. You are still there. A nurse practitioner can read the story by text if it is the simple pattern.
Out in Thoreau
Warm, clingy, not themselves, a long drive from town. Stay where you are and text. If this looks like more than a text visit, Chris will say so before you pay.
The county courthouse
The courthouse still stands in Gallup. You do not have to leave the county.
Photo: AllenS, 22 July 2009, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. The McKinley County Courthouse in Gallup, the county seat of McKinley County, New Mexico. This is not an official visitor page and not a partnership.
The McKinley County Courthouse in Gallup was built in 1938 and 1939 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. When someone gets sick in town, out in Thoreau, or on the interstate, text from where you are and keep the hour: it is a $59 visit, and meds go with you only if a prescription fits.
If you are in New Mexico right now
Keep the county. Skip the waiting room.
Someone comes through Gallup, or out along I-40 toward Thoreau, and then a person with them turns warm or hoarse. A walk-in wait would spend the rest of the hour.
This is a $59 asynchronous text visit with a nurse practitioner, from town, the car, or wherever you are standing in McKinley County. No video. You must be physically in New Mexico. If a prescription fits, you pick it up at a New Mexico pharmacy.
How it works
Three texts. A pharmacy in New Mexico if it fits.
No app, no portal, no video. A prescription is not promised. You only pay if he can treat you.
1
Text the symptoms
Tap the button. Say you are in New Mexico, in McKinley County, and what started. A parent or guardian has to run the visit for a kid. No app. No camera.
2
Get a plan
Chris Woods, a nurse practitioner, reads it himself. Support it, treat it, or be seen in person.
3
A New Mexico pharmacy when it fits
When a prescription is appropriate, it can go to a nearby New Mexico pharmacy. A prescription is not promised. You only pay if he can treat you.
The honest line
When a text visit is the wrong fit
A child who looks seriously ill. A stiff neck with fever. Trouble keeping fluids down. Anything that needs a room, imaging, or eyes on a wound. This page is for the simple hour in McKinley County, in Gallup or out in Thoreau, not the scare that belongs in an ER. He will send you in, and you are not charged for a visit he cannot do.
Not for emergencies
Chest pain, trouble breathing, or a severe allergic reaction: call 911 or go to the ER. Text-based telehealth is not emergency care.
Read this before you text
New Mexico license line. Read this before you text.
Chris Woods is licensed in New Mexico as a nurse practitioner. The credentials page lists New Mexico with the New Mexico Board of Nursing and does not publish a New Mexico license number. You must be physically in New Mexico during the visit. He does not prescribe controlled substances. The visit is $59 per text visit. No video. A parent or guardian runs a visit for a kid. You only pay if he can treat you. Verify the New Mexico record yourself at the New Mexico Board of Nursing.
HRSA designates McKinley County a High Needs Geographic Health Professional Shortage Area for primary care, with a shortage score of 19 in HRSA shortage-area data downloaded October 18, 2026.
Licensed in New Mexico as a nurse practitioner. Board listed on the credentials page: New Mexico Board of Nursing. No New Mexico license number is published there.
Patient location: physically in New Mexico at the time of the visit
No controlled substances
$59 per text visit. No video
A parent or guardian runs a visit for a kid
You only pay if he can treat you
NPI 1285125468
Care covers 13 states: NP licenses in 12 (Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Utah, and Washington), plus Florida by out-of-state telehealth registration (TPAN3355).
Chris Woods, MSN, APRN, FNP-C, AGACNP-BC
Double board-certified nurse practitioner
Licensed in New Mexico. NPI 1285125468. The credentials page does not publish a New Mexico license number.
Keep the county. Text from where you are standing.
If you are in New Mexico and this is not an emergency, start the $59 text visit. Chris will tell you if a pharmacy plan fits, or if you need a room instead.
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