UNM Health System | Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Welcome to UNM Health System

Every minute. Every day. Your health is our sole focus. As the largest teaching hospital in New Mexico, UNM Health providers breathe life into our mission: Delivering high-quality, accessible health care to all New Mexicans.

New Mexico's only Level 1 trauma center
1M+ Patient visits each year
Ranked High Performing Hospital for Colon Cancer Surgery and Heart Failure

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Summer Safety Series: Signs of Heat Exhaustion and Heat Stroke — and When to Act

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 16:00:00 GMT

This summer, keep your activities and adventures fun and safe by preparing for heat illness. In Part 3 of UNM Health’s Summer Safety Series, emergency medicine physician Jon Femling, MD, PhD, at The University of New Mexico Hospital talks about how heat...

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Cup Contamination: Research Reveals Alarming Microplastic Levels in Beverages

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 12:05:00 GMT

For most Americans, the daily ritual of drinking their daily cup of coffee or tea is second nature. However, new research reveals that hot drinks delivered in to-go beverage cups contain surprising contaminants in the form of microplastics. Fortunately,...

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Summer Safety Series: Watch Out for Water and Weather

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 12:00:00 GMT

New Mexico’s monsoon season is here. That means outdoor weather can change from sunny and hot to a torrential downpour in a matter of minutes. In part 2 of UNM Health’s Summer Safety Series, Jon Femling, MD, PhD, UNM Hospital emergency medicine...

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Over Decades, A Healthy Lifestyle Outperforms Metformin in Preventing Onset of Type 2 Diabetes

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 20:19:00 GMT

In the early 2000s the U.S. Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), a large randomized clinical trial, showed that intensive lifestyle modification was better than a medication called metformin at preventing at-risk patients from developing Type 2...

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24/7 Emergency Expertise

The UNM Health emergency team takes on the region's most complex emergency and ICU cases at New Mexico's only Level I trauma center.

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Stories of Help & Hope

Your wellbeing drives our unwavering dedication to patient care. Meet a few patients who move, feel and live better with expert care from UNM Health.

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