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New Mexico’s strained rural hospitals finally got some love this year. Two bills sitting on the governor’s desk could go far in relieving financial pressure on the state’s smallest hospitals.

By Gabrielle Porter, The Santa Fe New Mexican Even after a decade on the job, Dr. Jessica Roberts still has a hard time wrapping her mind around how far some of her patients drive to see her. The only obstetrician-gynecologist on staff at Miners Colfax Medical Center in Raton, Roberts said she sees women from

Inflation, insurance availability, changes in Medicaid funding and workforce problems have left some rural New Mexico hospitals uncertain if they can stay open in the coming years.

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Though one in five Americans are "rural," fewer than 10% of doctors practice medicine in small towns.

CHRISTUS St. Vincent President And CEO Lillian Montoya Receives Prestigious ACHE Regent’s Award CHRISTUS St. Vincent News: CHRISTUS St. Vincent President and CEO Lillian Montoya has received the prestigious American College of Healthcare Executives Senior-Level healthcare Executive Regent’s Award. The award was bestowed on Montoya by Stephen Stoddard, MHA, FACHE Regent for New Mexico and Southwest Texas for the American College of Healthcare Executives. The Senior-Level Healthcare Executive...

.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... Registered nurses Mandy Cordova, left, and Mikayla Salazar help Dr. James Gonzales put a breathing tube for a ventilator into a COVID-19 patient at Guadalupe County Hospital in Santa Rosa on Friday. (Eddie Moore/Journal) Copyright © 2020 Albuquerque Journal SANTA FE – It’s no secret when someone...