ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – State health leaders call it one of the most complex and important projects in New Mexico’s history. Now, the construction dust has settled, and the massive new hospital tower on UNM’s campus is just days away from finally opening up to patients.
“With this new Critical Care Tower, we will deliver more,” says Dr. Mike Richards. Ready to deliver more in Albuquerque. It’s a celebration for UNM Health’s new $700 million Critical Care Tower, something state leaders believe will redefine medical care and teaching in New Mexico.
“We will be able to treat more New Mexicans here in New Mexico, accepting more patients, reducing out-of-state transfers, keeping families together when it matters the most,” says Dr. Richards.
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It’s a decade in the making – construction started on the 192-bed facility in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic when the state’s hospitals were stretched to the brink. “We flew a patient an hour to Albuquerque. Those patients came to UNM, this wasn’t open, we were serving patients in the hallways,’ said Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham…