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Effective at 7 p.m. today, CHRISTUS St. Vincent’s Southside 24-Hour Emergency Room, located at 5501 Herrera Drive, will be closed. All emergency personnel have been reassigned to the main hospital emergency department at 455. St. Michael’s Drive to assist in our community response to COVID-19.

Health care is a business. Of course it is. We know this to be true, but in times like these, it is easy to forget. As we read about area hospitals gearing up for the battle of their lives  —  and our lives  —  we aren't thinking about profit margins or market share.

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and the New Mexico Department of Health on Wednesday announced that three New Mexico residents tested presumptive positive for COVID-19, the first confirmed cases in the state.

La enfermedad coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) es el tópico de conversación y preocupación en nuestra comunidad global. La intención de este mensaje es informar a nuestra comunidad en Nuevo México del norte sobre los esfuerzos de Christus St. Vincent y para informarle a usted sobre COVID-19. Espero que este mensaje le motive a hablar con sus amigos, familia, y vecinos.

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.

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.

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.