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Teacher battles back after tragic car accident, traumatic brain injury

Maria Montoya remembers talking excitedly about frogs at the zoo that July morning and later enjoying ice cream with her friends. However, she has no memories of the tragic three-car crash that happened a few hours later, which injured her and took the life of one of her best friends.

Couple overjoyed to bring their micro-preemie baby home

Albuquerque residents Brittanie and Nate Duran were looking forward to the delivery of their first baby girl, Elliana. They had chosen Lovelace Women’s Hospital because of the comfortable birthing center, the staff on hand and the expertise of the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in case of complications.

Their choice proved to be very important for their baby girl.

Good medicine: Lovelace name carries a legacy of healing — and space exploration

Albuquerque Journal

By Elaine D. Briseño / For the Journal Jan 5, 2025

Editor’s note: The Journal continues “What’s in a Name?,” a once a month column in which Elaine Briseño will give a short history of how places in New Mexico got their names.

The arrival of the railroad and abundance of mining were certainly responsible for enticing people to New Mexico in the late 1800s, but there was a more lethal reason people crossed our borders – tuberculosis.

Lovelace Medical Center, Heart Hospital of New Mexico Names George Wiley as Chief Financial Officer

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ALBUQUERQUE, NM – May 15, 2024 – Lovelace Health System has named George Wiley, MBA, MHA, chief financial officer (CFO) of Lovelace Medical Center and Heart Hospital of New Mexico at Lovelace Medical Center, effective May 28.

Turning an Emergency into a Miracle

Coalition to Protect America's Healthcare

Connie, who was only 27 weeks pregnant with her first child, fell ill while on a trip with her husband. The staff at Lovelace Women’s Hospital helped her undergo an unexpected, early delivery of her daughter. Click below to read her story. 

Antibody treatment for COVID clearly shown to be effective

Santa Fe New Mexican

Antibody treatment for COVID clearly shown to be effective

By Rick Ruggles rruggles@sfnewmexican.com
Nov 27, 2021 Updated Nov 28, 2021  12

Laboratory-made monoclonal antibodies have helped Sergio Molinar of Albuquerque overcome both lymphoma and COVID-19.
Luis Sánchez Saturno/The New Mexican

The coronavirus pandemic has focused attention on a fairly new form of therapy, and Sergio Molinar knows more about it than most.

'War without guns': Local manufacturers build key equipment for N.M.

Santa Fe New Mexican

By its very nature, Marpac Inc. had already joined the fight against the novel coronavirus.

The Albuquerque-based medical manufacturer’s main business is producing key components used in ventilators.

But when supplies of personal protective equipment began to run low amid the spread of COVID-19, Marpac jumped into that effort, too.

Roswell nurses assist New Jersey hospital during pandemic

Roswell Daily Record

Heeding the call of their occupation, three nurses from Roswell are now in one of the areas of the nation most affected by the coronavirus.

Lovelace Medical Center intensive care unit nurses Brittany Dickman, Cara Alsafi and Jesse Gomez arrived in New Jersey Thursday night and reported Friday afternoon to Mountainside Medical Center in Montclair, New Jersey, to assist the staff there.

New Mexico got aggressive start on testing for virus

Albuquerque Journal

New Mexico got aggressive start on testing for virus

BY RYAN BOETEL / JOURNAL STAFF WRITER
Published: Monday, March 30th, 2020 at 10:12pm
Updated: Tuesday, March 31st, 2020 at 12:02am

People arrive at a testing facility across the street from Lovelace Medical Center, 601 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. NE, on Monday. New Mexico’s per capita testing is among the highest in the nation. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)

Albuquerque Hospital Launches Drive-Up COVID-19 Testing

U.S. News & World Report

Albuquerque Hospital Launches Drive-Up COVID-19 Testing
Drive-up COVID-19 testing is now available at an hospital in downtown Albuquerque.

By Associated Press, Wire Service Content March 14, 2020, at 6:45 p.m.
U.S. News & World Report

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Drive-up COVID-19 testing is now available at a clinic outside an Albuquerque hospital.