Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine

Patient Care - Facilities

University Hospital

The UNM Health Sciences Center is a leader among health care institutions.  UNM Hospital, HSC's primary clinical component, has consistently been one of the 100 top-performing hospitals in the United States, and ranked among the top ten academic centers in the nation.

UNM Hospital is the primary teaching hospital for the UNM School of Medicine and is the home of the highly regarded UNM Children's Hospital.   It provides New Mexicans with a wide range of specialty and subspecialty care, with many of those specialties not available anywhere else in the state.

The hospital also operates New Mexico's only Level I Trauma Center and treats more than 1,300 critically injured patients a year.  New Mexicans are fortunate to have such an integrated medical center in Albuquerque where UNMH is located.

Outpatient Surgery and Imaging Services

Outpatient Surgery and Imaging Services (OSIS): Ambulatory surgeries are performed at this state of the art free standing surgical center located on University Blvd. Many patients may receive regional anesthesia as their primary anesthetic or for postoperative pain control.

Pain Clinic

The department’s chronic pain clinic is located at the OSIS Facility. Dr. Robert Zuniga is the medical director of the clinic. He has extensive experience in diagnosing and treating a wide variety of pain conditions. In particular, he has excelled at many invasive procedures such as regional anesthesia techniques, dorsal column stimulators, intrathecal medication pumps, and kyphoplasties. Patients are seen by appointment only. For appointments, please call 505-925-4994.

Barbara & Bill Richardson Children's Pavilion

This beautiful, newly completed facility houses the hospital’s state-of-the-art pediatric operating rooms and labor & delivery suite.  It is also home to expanded and improved world-class medical, trauma-surgical, neurosurgical, pediatric, and neonatal intensive care units.  Finally, New Mexico’s only Level I trauma emergency room has been expanded and upgraded by the new facility.