The Health Care Delivery and Access Act, awaiting the governor s signature, establishes a program that will pool contributions from most New Mexico hospitals, leverage them for a federal Medicaid match,
“I’m basically one sewer line break away from shutting the whole [rehabilitation center] down," said Frank Corcoran, CEO of Sierra Vista Hospital in Truth or Consequences.
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.