New Mexico hospital completes EMS base in $38.1M project

Lincoln County Medical Center in Ruidoso, N.M., opened an EMS base, phase one of a project that will replace the existing 25-bed hospital, according to a Ruidoso News report.

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The 9,000-square-foot EMS base includes a garage, offices, crew quarters and training areas.

The next phase of the $38.1 million project is a 70,000-square-foot, two-story critical access hospital with 25 private rooms, built in partnership with Albuquerque, N.M.-based Presbyterian Healthcare Services. The hospital aims to improve care and help retain and attract physicians to meet the community’s future healthcare needs, according to hospital officials.

The new hospital will offer inpatient and outpatient services, including an emergency department, intensive medical and surgical care, a labor and delivery department, an operating room, rehabilitation services, a laboratory, radiology and imaging services, a psychiatric treatment program for senior adults, a pharmacy, cardiopulmonary care, podiatry services and surgical services.

Construction of the new hospital will begin January 2018 and is expected to open in 2019.

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