A Call for New Mexicans to Demand Policy Reform That Secures Timely Access to High-Quality CareSanta Fe, NM – September 30, 2025 – Patient-Led NM today announced the launch of a series of Healthcare Summits across New Mexico alongside a new patient video campaign...
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Number of doctors leaving small towns reaches new high
Doctors are leaving rural communities across the country at alarming rates. A study published by Avalere and Physicians Advocacy Institute, a nonprofit healthcare professional advocacy group, earlier this year reported that between Jan. 1, 2019 and Jan. 24, 2024 rural...
Fixing malpractice, GRT and compacts could keep doctors here
I attended a statewide Indivisible conference earlier this year in which a New Mexico trial attorney stated no, the New Mexico Trial Lawyers Association did not oppose interstate licensing compacts and that New Mexico does not need to amend our medical malpractice...
New Mexico’s health care crisis is forcing military personnel to decline assignments
About a year after Christine Calhoun and her family moved to Cannon Air Force Base, her 5-year-old son woke up from a nap and didn’t remember her. “It was horrifying,” Calhoun said. In Clovis, the closest city to Cannon, there are no pediatric neurologists. That...
Dark Money Group Unmasked by State Ethics Commission
Earlier this year a dark money group called “New Mexico Safety Over Profit” (NMSOP) was sued by the state Ethics Commission for refusing to comply with the state law that required them to disclose the sources of their funding. NMSOP was the public face of the...
Press Release – Healthcare Champions Launch Public Education Campaign to Address New Mexico’s Medical Access Crisis
A new public education campaign has been launched by Patient-Led NM, founded by the New Mexico Medical Society, New Mexico Hospital Association, Sacramento Mountains Foundation, and the Greater Albuquerque Medical Association. The effort aims to educate New Mexicans about the policy landscape contributing to the state’s deepening healthcare crisis, which has resulted in a significant loss of physicians and growing barriers to patient care.
Nonprofit group discloses hefty trial lawyer contributions after settlement agreement
New Mexico's medical malpractice laws have emerged as a hotly-debated issue in recent legislative sessions. A group called New Mexico Safety Over Profits that has advocated against changing the current laws recently entered into a settlement agreement with the State...
Doctors are on the run, out of New Mexico
Dr. Angelina A. Villas-Adams is a board-certified gastroenterologist and internist practicing at Southwest Gastroenterology Associates and Southwest Endoscopy in Albuquerque. She earned her medical degree from the University of New Mexico. As president of the New...
$1.3 million dark money operation to stop malpractice reform brought to light
A political group that fought tooth and nail to block medical malpractice reform in New Mexico has been forced to lift the veil on its funding—revealing an operation bankrolled almost entirely by trial attorneys. New Mexico Safety Over Profit, the self-described...