SANTA FE — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced Oct. 17 the selection of 11 rural health care providers to receive the first tranche of funding through the Rural Health Care Delivery Fund. Gallup Community Health is one of those 11 groups.
The governor and Legislature secured $80 million for the priority initiative in the last legislative session.
"Living in a rural area shouldn’t be a deciding factor for the level of health care New Mexicans receive,” Lujan Grisham said. “It is a number one priority of this administration to take whatever actions are necessary to build up and support health care providers. Taking a significant portion of the financial burden off of rural providers to expand access will have a real impact on the lives and health of New Mexicans.”
Grant agreements with the remaining recipients of the $80 million are in the final stages of approval and will be announced in November.
This initiative will provide crucial funding to rural health care providers, enabling them to offer new and expanded services in their communities.
The awardees include services for maternal health care including OB/GYNs, behavioral health and primary care.
The initial recipients are:
- Gallup Community Health: Increase primary care and behavioral health services in McKinley County.
- The Psychiatric Care Center LLC: Expand behavioral health services in Curry, De Baca, Lea, Quay, and Roosevelt Counties.
- The Learning Path, LLC: Expand in-person behavioral health services in Socorro County.
- Sunrise Clinics: Expand and increase primary care and behavioral health services for youth in Colfax, Guadalupe, Harding, Mora, Quay, Taos, and Torrance Counties.
- South Central Colfax County Special Hospital District: Increase primary care services, particularly for older adults, and expand substance use services in Colfax County.
- Nurstead Consulting Services, LLC: Create a 24-hour, 7-day-a-week drop-in facility to provide mental health support services in Curry County.
- Mimbres Memorial Hospital: Expand pediatric outpatient, inpatient, emergency, and labor and delivery services in Luna County.
- Laguna Healthcare Corp: Expand primary care services, pharmacy, laboratory, and radiology in Cibola County.
- Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center: Restart in-person outpatient psychiatric services that ceased during the COVID-19 pandemic and expand inpatient behavioral health in Otero County.
- El Centro Family Health: Start-up of dental health services in Taos County.
- Covenant Health Hobbs: Expanding labor and delivery, pre-and post-natal care, and maternal health in Lea and Eddy Counties.
