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Today the New Mexico Department of Health and Project ECHO announced a new collaborative effort to treat tuberculosis patients in New Mexico. Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) utilizes telementoring and knowledge sharing to build primary care capacity to treat complex condit... « read more »
The New Mexico Department of Health announced today that childhood obesity rates among New Mexico 3rd grade students continue to decline, with a 20 percent decrease since 2010. In 2010, 22.6 percent of 3rd grade students were obese, compared to 18.1 percent in 2014. Also, for the first time since t... « read more »
The New Mexico Department of Health is working on an exercise to meet Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines to ensure New Mexico is prepared to respond to a public health emergency. The main portion of the exercise will take place at University of New Mexico’s Johnson Center and w... « read more »
The New Mexico Department of Health announced today it has compiled vaccine exemption data for each public school district in the state. The data is for the 2014 – 2015 school year. The Department of Health is making a commitment to update vaccine exemption data by school district each year. « read more »
The New Mexico Behavioral Health Institute announced today it has gone through its triennial voluntary accreditation and certification survey and received the Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval for Hospital, Nursing Care, Behavioral Health and Laboratory Accreditation. « read more »
Independence is an important issue for seniors and their families. We all remember how we felt when we were younger and moved out of our parents’ home. That feeling of independence was huge for establishing confidence and self-management as young adults, but for a growing number of New Mexico seni... « read more »
The New Mexico Department of Health is concerned that the number of vaccine exemptions among school-aged children increased again in 2014. An increase in vaccination exemptions can increase the risk for outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, such as measles. « read more »
The New Mexico Department of Health announced how it plans to utilize a nearly $2 million grant awarded by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services as part of the State Innovation Model Initiative. New Mexico will use the funds to design a plan to enhance patient experience of care, reduce h... « read more »
The top 10 names thus far in 2014 only account for 7.3% of female and 8.3% of male names. « read more »
We made the decision to move immunization services to the east side of the city to better serve our local residents. Our west Las Cruces office was located in a primarily industrial part of town. Moving our immunization center to the East Mesa will provide additional services to one of the most rap... « read more »
The New Mexico Department of Health announced today that the adult fall-related death rate decreased 9.5% from 2011 through 2013. The fall-related death rate among adults aged 65 and older in New Mexico declined to 79.6/100,000, nearly the same rate as in 2002, according to a New Mexico Epidemiolog... « read more »
The New Mexico Department of Health is honoring rural hospitals in New Mexico for the important role they play in the health of New Mexicans. The Department’s Office of Rural Health asked New Mexico’s 24 rural hospitals to participate in its Celebration of National Rural Health Day, which is No... « read more »
The Española Women, Infants, Children program office at the Rio Arriba County Public Health Office will be offering services on the following two Saturdays in the fall and winter months. « read more »
The New Mexico Department of Health congratulates four nurses among the nominees for the 2014 New Mexico Nursing Excellence Awards held Saturday, October 11th. « read more »
Starting today, the Drug Enforcement Administration is treating hydrocodone combination products as a more restrictive category of controlled substances (Schedule II from Schedule III). Hydrocodone combination products are drugs that contain hydrocodone and another substance, such as acetaminophen... « read more »
The New Mexico Behavioral Health Institute in Las Vegas (NMBHI) and the Health Facility Licensing and Certification Bureau were recently recognized by HealthInsight New Mexico at an event in Albuquerque with the Shining Stars: Celebrating Commitment to Quality awards. « read more »
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed a case of Enterovirus D68 in New Mexico. The New Mexico Department of Health began working with the CDC earlier this month, after a child was hospitalized in Albuquerque with respiratory illness. The child has recovered. « read more »
The New Mexico Department of Health reports evaluations are still underway for 16 New Mexico babies tested at the Sunland Public Health Office Tuesday, and an additional 26 tested Wednesday at the Anthony Public Health Office for possible exposure to tuberculosis (TB). To date, none of the children... « read more »
Today the New Mexico Department of Health announced the first laboratory-confirmed influenza case of the season in a 94-year-old man from Bernalillo County who was hospitalized. Last year, the first case of influenza was also reported in mid-September. « read more »
The New Mexico Department of Health has tested 42 New Mexico babies over two days who may have been exposed to a hospital employee with an active case of Tuberculosis in the post-partum and newborn nursery area of Providence Hospital in El Paso, Texas between September 2013 and August 2014. « read more »