The Facilities

La Familia Medical Center (interior pictured left) is a community health center treating the underserved in Santa Fe County.  Under the guidance of a local and autonomous board of directors, which includes patients of the health center, La Familia offers a wide range of community services and outreach.  Current staff includes board-certified family physicians, a board-certified OB/Gyn, family nurse practitioners, as well as physician assistance, promotoras, therapists, social workers and dentists.  The clinic offers a strong and nationally recognized health education program for its patients.  Limited laboratory services are also available on site.  Other laboratory and diagnostic imaging services are contracted to local providers.  La Familia Medical Center has been the primary continuity clinic since the inception of the Northern New Mexico Family Practice Residency Program.

 

 

Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center is a non-profit, community hospital with 268 beds and more than 300 physicians representing 22 medical specialties.  The largest hospital north of Albuquerque and south of Pueblo, Colorado, St. Vincent admits more than 10,000 patients annually.  Additionally, 11,500 are treated as outpatients and 5,000 other patients come for same-day surgery each year.  The emergency department and adjacent Fast TRACK treated more than 80,000 patients last year, making it the second busiest acute care facility in New Mexico.

 

CHRISTUS St. Vincent Regional Medical Center

 

 

Women’s Health Services Family Care and Counseling Center is a private nonprofit organization with a community board, whose clinical services are supplemented by federal, state, local and private grants.  The physicians provide full spectrum family practice services.  WHS provides a Women’s Health Rotation to all family practice residents.

Artwork at Women's Health Services Family Care and Counseling Center

 

Other training activities of Northern New Mexico program reach beyond the confines of the clinic and hospital settings.  Dedicated to community interaction, specialty rotations are provided in the offices and clinics of community practitioners and experiences in rural areas are required.  The central offices of the NM Department of Health are located in Santa Fe, along with a very active district health office that serves the Northern region of NM.  This combination of educational resources for population-based health education makes the Santa Fe site especially rich for public health education.

 

 

Community Project

Each resident is required to identify, design, and implement a community project during his or her two years in Santa Fe.  The public health department and community practitioners provide support and training for these activities. 

 

 

 

 

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