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Lovelace Health System Won New Mexico’s Healthiest Employers 2013 Award

Albuquerque Business First March 22, 2013

It’s not surprising that employees of Lovelace Health System are interested in leading healthier lives — but by any measure, the 93 percent employee participation rate in wellness programs among Lovelace’s Albuquerque and Rio Rancho hospitals is impressive. Lovelace offers biometric screenings and health risk assessments, and provides financial incentives for employees to remain healthy....

Lovelace donates vans to El Ranchito de los Niños

Valencia County News March 22, 2013

By Deborah Fox / Staff Reporter Spring weather graced the quiet rural Los Lunas community the morning Lovelace Rehabilitation Hospital made a special donation to El Ranchito de los Niños, a nonprofit alternative to foster care that keeps siblings together. The hospital gave El Ranchito two shuttle vans, one with only 84,000 miles and both in great running order. The hospital could no longer use...

Belen, Los Lunas Vie for Hospital

ABQ Journal March 19, 2013

Artist’s rendering of a proposed hospital in Belen. It would be owned by a private nonprofit and managed by Ameris Health Systems of Nashville, Tenn. (Photo Courtesy of Dekker/Perich/Sabatini)Commissioners must choose between two competing proposals for a planned Valencia Regional Medical Center, setting off a rivalry between Belen and Los Lunas, which both want the hospital.Officials in the two...

Dr. Lichtmacher Joins Lovelace Health System

ABQ Journal March 18, 2013

ABRAHAM LICHTMACHER, M.D., has joined the Lovelace Health System (LHS) as chief of women’s services. Lichtmacher has been in clinical practice for 30 years and most recently worked as the chief of obstetrics and gynecology for the Rochester General Health System in New York. He has a medical degree from New York Medical College; received postgraduate training in obstetrics and gynecology at the...

Anticoagulation Clinic at Lovelace Medical Center

Prime Time March 18, 2013

Pharmacist and Anticoagulation Clinic Manager, Carly Cloud, recently opened the Lovelace Anticoagulation Clinic at Lovelace Medical Center after recognizing a need in the community. The clinic was launched in November to help patients manage their blood thinner therapy, while providing an accessible and experienced staff for seamless patient care. “We take walk-ins,” Carly says. “They can be seen...