With funding from the New Mexico Department of Health, the Center for Health Innovation engaged five rural Southern New Mexico counties in research, analysis and discussion about their healthcare workforce development needs now and in the future. The five counties included Grant, Sierra, Socorro, Catron and Valencia. Project participants included […]
With funding from the New Mexico Department of Health, the Center for Health Innovation engaged five rural Southern New Mexico counties in research, analysis and discussion about their healthcare workforce development needs now and in the future. The five counties included Grant, Sierra, Socorro, Catron and Valencia. Project participants included […]
CHI received a grant from the U.S Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) Rural Communities Opioid Response Program to engage 16 southern New Mexico counties to meet their prevention, treatment and recovery needs in a community-driven comprehensive assessment process. The southern New Mexico counties in the program include Catron, Chaves, […]
As New Mexico’s designated Public Health Institute, the Center for Health Innovation (CHI) is dedicated to working with communities to advance health and social justice through innovative and effective policies and programs for all the residents in our state, and beyond. In our 2019 Annual Report you can read about […]
Collaborating with the community, Cibola Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition (CSAPC) created this informative guide for parents, guardians and residents to understand the facts regarding opioid substance misuse and its impact on the county. Click here to download the handbook.
Nuestro informe nuevo detalla nuestro proceso de reunir mapas GIS de ubicaciones de venta de alcohol en Las Cruces, Nuevo México, con mapas superpuestos de llamadas seleccionadas para servicios de las fuerzas del orden público por delitos relacionados con el alcohol e identifica los “zonas críticas” de la comunidad. Descárguelo […]
Unified Prevention Coalition for Doña Ana County worked with the community to create this handbook for families to better understand the dangers of misuse and abuse of prescription painkillers. The handbook includes community resources. Download the handbook by clicking here.
La Coalición Unificada de Prevención para el Condado de Doña Ana trabajó con la comunidad para crear este manual para que las familias entiendan mejor los peligros del mal uso y abuso de los medicamentos recetados. El manual incluye recursos de la comunidad. Descargue el manual oprimiendo en enlace aquí
Our new report details the Unified Prevention Coalition of Doña Ana County’s process of bringing together GIS maps of Las Cruces, New Mexico, alcohol sales locations with overlaid maps of select calls for services to law enforcement for alcohol-related crimes and identifies community “hot spots”. Download it by clicking here.
View the Summary Report–> View the Full Report–> How and why do some New Mexico community collaborative efforts to build a healthy community work better than others? To help answer this question we completed an in-depth study of two New Mexico counties, Santa Fe and Doña Ana. From this study, […]
View this publication –> Our CEO, Charlie Alfero was among the Rural Health Care System Innovators to serve on a Rural Health Policy Research Institute’s (RUPRI) Health Panel to discuss strategies and models for rural health care system innovation. Alfero was one of the convened state and community leaders with […]
View this publication –> The New Mexico Public Health Institute was formed to address health disparities that stem from the deep historical and current inequities that frame the lives of New Mexico residents. NMPHI envisions that in New Mexico, “health equity is achieved [and] social and health issues continue to be […]
View this publication –> There is growing recognition that public health and health care need to work together differently to achieve mutual goals of cost containment, better quality of care and investments in upstream factors influencing health and well-being. There remain significant challenges to collaboration in New Mexico. The New […]
View this publication –> There are not enough health care professionals in New Mexico to meet the population’s need for health care services. The demand for health care workers and providers is much greater than the supply of graduates in the health field. See what health careers best suit your […]
View this publication → Our CEO, Charlie Alfero sat on a RURPI panel to discuss “After Hospital Closure: Pursuing High Performance Rural Health Systems without Inpatient Care”. The panel focuses on the opportunities for rural communities to develop a high performance rural health system after hospital closure. Communities with hospitals that […]
A new project report from Rural and Remote Health Journal , by JD Taylor and SE Goletz, found that health education centers (AHEC) promote interest in rural practice in medical students. CHI hosts the regional AHEC in southern New Mexico, part of our efforts to promote health education in rural communities. […]
View this publication → Compared to their urban counterparts, rural populations tend to be older, poorer, and sicker and have less access to employer-sponsored insurance plans. Consequently, a higher proportion of rural people are potentially eligible for Medicaid. Indeed, as of 2014, 22 percent of rural residents were enrolled in […]
View this publication → This article examines the experience of a frontier-based community health center when it utilized the Tool for Health and Resilience in Vulnerable Environments (THRIVE) for assessing social determinants of health with a local health consortium. Community members (N = 357) rated safety, jobs, housing, and education […]
View this publication → Despite decades of policy efforts to stabilize rural health systems through a range of policies and funding programs, accelerating rural hospital closures combined with rapid changes in private and public payment strategies have created widespread concern that these solutions are inadequate for addressing current rural health […]
View this publication → We describe the impact of community health workers (CHWs) providing community-based support services to enrollees who are high consumers of health resources in a Medicaid managed care system. We conducted a retrospective study on a sample of 448 enrollees who were assigned to field-based CHWs in […]
View this publication → The Agricultural Cooperative Extension Service model offers academic health centers methodologies for community engagement that can address the social determinants of disease. The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center developed Health Extension Rural Offices (HEROs) as a vehicle for its model of health extension. Health […]
View this publication → A seamless system of social, behavioral, and medical services for the uninsured was created to address the social determinants of disease, reduce health disparities, and foster local economic development in 2 inner-city neighborhoods and 2 rural counties in New Mexico. We helped urban and rural communities […]
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