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
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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.