ALBUQUERQUE — The Westside Lovelace Hospital, a few minutes across the Rio Rancho border, has expanded its inpatient capacity.
The expansion, providing 15 more beds to the hospital’s medical-surgical floor, was necessary, according to a Lovelace release which stated it will increase access to care for patients across Rio Rancho and Albuquerque’s Westside as the region continues to grow.
Jay Sundheimer, chief nursing officer, and Dominique Montoya, director of nursing on the Med-Surg floor, talked about why the expansion was needed during a tour of the floor July 15…