The busy UNM Truman Health Services primary care clinic - which serves patients living with HIV disease and has an active caseload of around 1,100 – recently won a prestigious Level 3 certificate of recognition from the National Committee for Quality Assurance. The certificate cites the Truman clinic’s patient-centered coordinated care management, which provides a suite of services under one roof.
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As home to the state's only Level I trauma center, UNM Hospital needs to be prepared for just about any kind of medical emergency - including those involving mass casualties. Response to terrorism, natural and man-made disasters and chemical accidents require highly specialized training. More than 30 UNM emergency responders got that training, thanks to a unique disaster simulation at one of the nation's premier training facilities.
Inspired by a dream of bikers in pink T-shirts, Shane Stanford started the “Ride for the Cure NM” event 7 years ago to raise money and awareness for cancer treatment and research. This year’s event featured two simultaneous motorcycle rides on March 29, one beginning in Albuquerque and the other beginning in Santa Fe. Both rides ended in Madrid, where family-friendly festivities included a children’s corner, live bands on four different stages, craft and vendor fair, and food.
Match Day this year fell on Friday, March 21, when residency matches for thousands of fourth-year medical students around the country were released simultaneously. UNM School of Medicine students gathered with their families, friends and faculty members to nervously wait for the moment when they could open the envelopes that would reveal their residency future.
If you can believe it, allergy season is already upon us. UNM's allergy expert Dr. Mark Schuyler shares what to expect during allergy season and some of the best ways to alleviate your symptoms.
When a pediatric patient is fighting through cancer and receiving chemotherapy or radiation there is a pain and sickness component that is not always addressed by conventional medical care. That's where the UNM Center for Life and integrative medicine come in. Through acupuncture, massage, healing touch, and other CAM (complementary and alternative medicines) services, the center's care providers are able to assist in ways to support the whole person in their healing process. But not all of integrative services are paid by the patient’s insurance benefits. So UNM pediatric oncologist Dr. Linda Butros and Center for Life director of advanced manual therapies David Lang are introducing Kids Supporting Kids, an arts initiative to raise funds for integrative oncology services for children fighting cancer.
April 16, 2014 — Jeff Potter is a renaissance man. After more than 25 years in scientific research at the University of New Mexico, he retired in 2006 to focus on his interest in fine art.
April 14, 2014 — The busy UNM Truman Health Services primary care clinic - which serves patients living with HIV disease and has an active caseload of around 1,100 – recently won a prestigious Level 3 certificate of recognition from the National Committee for Quality Assurance. The certificate cites the Truman clinic’s patient-centered coordinated care management, which provides a suite of services under one roof.
April 12, 2014 — A downed PHI Air Medical Helicopter is safely on the ground, after a crane lifted it from the roof of UNM Hospital Saturday. The helicopter had been there since Wednesday, when it crashed while attempting to take off. Police blocked off a section of ...
April 11, 2014 — Removal of the downed PHI helicopter from the top of UNM hospital will begin Saturday morning, impacting traffic and events on the University of New Mexico main and north campus areas around the hospital. There will be no interruption of clinical services at the hospital, but emergency traffic will be rerouted. Patients will be directed to the hospital by police.
April 11, 2014 — The National Transportation Safety Board has cleared the way for UNM Hospital to move the PHI medical helicopter that crashed on the hospital's roof Wednesday.