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CHRISTUS values the importance of collaboration and coordinated action for the identification and care of those patients exhibiting signs of the COVID-19. Which is why we continue to follow CDC interim guidelines and work non-stop, in partnership with local, state and federal government authorities. We are fortunate to be part of a local health care community committed to responding to the needs of these patients in the safest manner necessary.

In January of this year, CHRISTUS St. Vincent will receive a 5-star quality rating from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services – the highest quality rating awarded by the agency and the first in the hospital’s history. Much has led to this monumental achievement.

CHRISTUS St. Vincent recently named three new members of its executive leadership team. Reuben Murray, CPA, was recently named Chief Financial Officer of CHRISTUS St. Vincent. Lance Wilson, M.D. has been named President of the CHRISTUS St. Vincent Clinician Group. As Vice President of Compliance, Jennifer Gomez will oversee CHRISTUS St. Vincent’s efforts to ensure it is in full compliance with all state and national laws and regulations that pertain to the delivery of care and services to patients, their families and the community.

Christus St. Vincent Health System is the newest member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network, a select group of independent health systems that work with Mayo Clinic to improve the delivery of health care and better serve their patients and communities.

CHRISTUS St. Vincent is proud to announce that it has earned a Four-Star rating for overall hospital quality from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Only six out of the 42 hospitals in New Mexico have a Four-star rating. CHRISTUS St. Vincent is the only full-service, comprehensive trauma hospital in Northern New Mexico to receive four stars. It is the highest CMS star rating that CHRISTUS St. Vincent has achieved.

CHRISTUS St. Vincent is pleased to announce that Hope Wade has been selected as the organization’s new Chief Operating Officer. Wade, who has served as the health system’s Chief Financial officer since July of 2017, brings more than 23 years of extensive health care management experience to the role, including experience in financial planning, decision support and operational strategy, as well as budget and capital planning processes.

Jennifer Castaneda-Lovato has been a nurse for 20 years, 16 of them in pediatrics.
“You see a lot,” she said recently. “There’s a whole lot involved in being a nurse.”
One type of case left her uneasy, she said. With one of the highest rates of opioid addiction in the nation, New Mexico hospitals see thousands of children born each year to addicted mothers.

While women are half the population and earn about half of all law and medical degrees, and represent half of the college educated workforce, according to the Pew Research Center data on women leaders, the share of female CEOs of Fortune 500 companies topped just 5% for the first time in the first quarter of 2017, with 27 women heading major firms. As recently as 1995, there were no female CEOs on the Fortune 500 list.

For longtime Santa Fe residents, the Christus in the name of St. Vincent Regional Medical Center can be somewhat of an afterthought.
To them, the hospital is simply St. Vincent’s. It’s the place where they came into the world, their parents or grandparents were born and where they have spent untold hours over the years — a broken arm, surgery, sudden illness and in many cases, the last days of a life.

Santa Fe's two medical centers feature a similar composition of board members, but Christus St. Vincent is more versed in diversity.