New Mexico Department of Health

A lawsuit filed 22 years ago is still costing New Mexico money and one Senator wants to cut the cash. Sen. Rod Adair threw out the word ’scam’ as he described the millions of dollars the state has paid in an ongoing lawsuit.
But the state Department of Health said Monday it is legally required to [...]

A Republican state senator charged Friday that the Department of Health had hired more than 90 state employees since Gov. Bill Richardson imposed a state hiring freeze – and she wants to know why. Sen. Sue Wilson Beffort, R-Sandia Park, charged during a meeting of the Legislative Finance Committee on Friday that some of those [...]

Although it has been praised for its innovative structure, New Mexico’s medical marijuana program, which debuted this year, has also been criticized for not providing enough of the drug to meet demand and for allowing high costs that could be prohibitive for some patients. In an interview, New Mexico Secretary Alfredo Vigil says New Mexico’s medical marijuana program faces the same barriers of provision and access as other health care services.

Twelve thousand doses of nasal H1N1 flu vaccine should arrive in the state this week and will be shipped to medical providers statewide, the New Mexico Department of Health announced Monday afternoon.

A 5-year-old girl from Rio Rancho and a Roosevelt County infant are the latest New Mexicans to have died from the H1N1 virus, the state Health Department announced Thursday evening.
Parents of students enrolled at Rio Rancho schools were notified Thursday night of the child’s death by an automated calling system.

Over the years Armando Gutierrez did marketing and consulting work for sundry state agencies and public entities across New Mexico.
And in 2004 the media consultant made sure to list as many as possible when bidding for a media consulting contract being let by then-Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron, according to a 74-page proposal Gutierrez’s firm [...]

There are 13 new laboratory confirmed cases of the H1N1, or “swine,” flu today, according to the New Mexico Department of Health. That brings the total number of confirmed cases to 44, spread across 11 different New Mexico counties.

New Mexico Department of Health Secretary Alfredo Vigil is the featured guest on tonight’s episide of New Mexico In Focus, a weekly show I co-host along with Gene Grant.

The New Mexico Department of Health issued a statement giving the OK for schools to reopen after 16 schools closed because of fears about the H1N1 (or “swine”) flu.

The New Mexico Department of Health issued a statement about the latest on the H1N1 (or “swine”) flu. So far, there are just nine probable cases of the virus out of 97 cases tested so far.
There are still no confirmed cases of the swine flu in New Mexico, and the state is still waiting on [...]

New Mexico, like the rest of the country, is seeing an increase in digitized medical records used by physicians and other health professionals. But supporters of a proposal sure to go before the New Mexico Legislature say with that growth come gaps in privacy protection for patients and consumers. And they want to close them.