Preparing for Disaster: UNM Hospital Participates in Region-Wide Emergency Training
By Nicole San Roman
UNM Health System’s Patient Experience
There are thousands of professionals working within The University of New Mexico Health System, specializing in more than 150 different areas of medicine. But they all have one common priority: patient care.
Every single day, teams from across the UNM Health System are working tirelessly to ensure New Mexicans are receiving high quality care with cutting edge treatments and procedures. They are connecting with our community in real, life-changing, and life-saving ways.
But you don’t have to take our word for it.
Here are stories directly from those who matter most, our patients.
A Second Chance at Life: The Miracle Behind Blood Drive at SRMC
Brenda Murray is no stranger to witnessing the many emergencies that bring patients through hospital doors. It is part of her job as the director of environmental services at The University of New Mexico Sandoval Regional Medical Center (SRMC). But nothing in her work could have prepared her for the day she received a phone call about her son.
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Off Duty UNM Hospital Employees Save a Bicyclist’s Life on the Bosque Trail
The morning of Sunday Oct. 29th wasn’t too different for Albuquerque resident Nicholas Juskiewicz and Brandon Behrens, MD, a trauma surgeon at The University of New Mexico Hospital. Jusckiewicz put on his cycling kit and headed to Albuquerque’s Old Town area to start the Day of the Tread 61-mile bicycle ride. Behrens, just finishing an overnight shift, did the same.
Neither had ever met before, but fate would ensure they would.
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Tragedy to Hope: UNM Hospital Team Inspires Teen Shooting Victim to Become a Nurse
In the sunshine of a crisp, fall day, on The University of New Mexico campus, a beautiful young woman sitting on a bench in her medical scrubs smiles and laughs. Her face lights up as she talks about her future, her plans to one day become a nurse. While every student has their own unique story for wanting to pursue a career in health care, Sonia Brito’s journey is much different.
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Off-Duty SRMC Health Care Worker Helps Save Man at Gym
Everyday hundreds of people at UNM Sandoval Regional Medical Center (SRMC) dedicate their time and skills to their patients. Lifesaving work is their job and their passion. But for two women who work there, it’s what happened outside of the hospital that changed both their lives and saved another.
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Woman Gives the Gift of Life to Husband Through Kidney Donation at UNM Hospital
What are the odds that you could be an organ match for your love match?
Lisa and Jeffrey Schnapp sat next to each other in matching sweatshirts that read, “Perfect Match.” Just two weeks post-op from kidney surgery at The University of New Mexico Hospital, the couple held hands and beamed at each other as they looked back on the first time they met.
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UNM Lifeguard 40 Years: Lifeguard’s Guardian Angel
In July of 2018, Ashley Rabago received news no mother wants to hear. Her daughter, Ariana Diaz, was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic osteosarcoma, just days after her 11th birthday.
“It was aggressive when we found it,” Rabago said. “It was found in her left femur, above her knee, and in both lungs.”
It started the night she nearly died. She was just 16 years old.
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A Baby’s Smile: Coordinating Cleft Care in New Mexico
Juliet Jade Pfieffer was 18 weeks pregnant when an ultrasound revealed her baby had a cleft lip and cleft palate.
“I did not know anything about clefts,” Pfieffer said. “At first, I felt like my world was falling apart. It was really hard for me to hear that. He would come out with half of his mouth gone.”
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