Lovelace Medical Center

Overview

Lovelace Medical Center is a patient-centered hospital featuring state-of-the-art equipment and a round-the-clock emergency department that includes a dedicated area for treating our senior patients.

We offer high-quality, high-tech medicine in a facility that has become a symbol of health and wellness in the heart of the city we serve. Nowhere else in the state will you find technology like our Gamma Knife Center, capable of treating complex, often inoperable, conditions of the brain.

• Number of employees in 2022: 971
• Licensed beds in 2022: 263
• Inpatient admissions in 2022: 8,449
• Outpatient visits in 2022: 129,646 (combined with Heart Hospital of New Mexico)
• Emergency Department visits in 2022: 28,412
• Surgical cases in 2022: 6,990

Services

• 24/7 Emergency Department
• Adult ICU
• Cardiovascular ICU
• Cardiology Services
• Dialysis
• Gamma Knife Center of New Mexico
• Inpatient PT, OT and Speech Therapy
• Medical Oncology
• Pulmonology and respiratory therapy
• Radiation Oncology
• Radiology Services
• Stroke and neurology unit
• Surgical Services

Awards

• AHA Get with the Guidelines - Gold Plus Target Stroke Elite Plus Honor Roll and the Target Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll 2021 - 2022
• Leapfrog Top Teaching Hospital
• Leapfrog Hospital Safety "A" Grade
• AHA Get with the Guidelines - Stroke Gold Plus with Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite Plus
• Modern Healthcare's Best Places to Work in Healthcare, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
• Midas+ Platinum Quality Award
• DNV-GL Gold Seal of Approval for certification as a Primary Stroke Center
• Named to Becker’s Hospital Review’s list of 100 Hospitals with Great Neurosurgery and Spine Programs
• Accredited in radiation oncology by the American College of Radiology 2017, 2018, 2019
• DNV-GL accredited