New Mexico has 54 open hospitals across 31 cities. By type: 26 acute care hospitals, 13 critical access hospitals, 4 psychiatric hospitals, 3 rehabilitation hospitals, 1 long-term care hospital, 1 VA acute care hospital and 1 rural emergency hospital (type not recorded for 5).
New Mexico's largest hospital cities
- Median ER
- 3 hr 32 min
- Top rated
- Lovelace Westside Hospital (4★)
- Median ER
- 2 hr 41 min
- Top rated
- Three Crosses Regional Hospital (3★)
- Median ER
- 3 hr 19 min
- Top rated
- Presbyterian Santa Fe Medical Center (5★)
Top-rated hospitals and shortest ER visits
- Presbyterian Santa Fe Medical CenterSanta Fe
- Lovelace Westside HospitalAlbuquerque
- St Vincent HospitalSanta Fe
- Lovelace Women's HospitalAlbuquerque
- Three Crosses Regional HospitalLas Cruces
- Covenant Health Hobbs HospitalHobbs
- CHRISTUS Southern New MexicoAlamogordo
- Northern Navajo Medical CenterShiprock
- Holy Cross Hospital a Div of Taos Health SystemsTaos 1 hr 32 min
- Artesia General HospitalArtesia 1 hr 39 min
- Dr Dan C Trigg Memorial HospitalTucumcari 1 hr 53 min
- Cibola General HospitalGrants 1 hr 55 min
- Miners' Colfax Medical CenterRaton 1 hr 58 min
- Roswell Regional HospitalRoswell 2 hr 10 min
- Union County General HospitalClayton 2 hr 12 min
- Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care ServicesGallup 2 hr 16 min
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All New Mexico cities with hospitals
All 31 New Mexico cities A–Z
- Alamogordo (1)
- Albuquerque (15)
- Artesia (1)
- Carlsbad (1)
- Clayton (1)
- Clovis (1)
- Crownpoint (1)
- Deming (1)
- Espanola (1)
- Farmington (1)
- Hobbs (1)
- Las Cruces (4)
- Las Vegas (2)
- Los Alamos (1)
- Lovington (1)
- Portales (1)
- Santa Fe (3)
- Santa Rosa (1)
- Santa Teresa (1)
- Shiprock (1)
- Silver City (1)
- Socorro (1)
- Taos (1)
- Truth Or Consequences (1)
- Tucumcari (1)
- Zuni Pueblo (1)
Largest hospitals in New Mexico
Ranked by beds reported on each hospital's latest Medicare cost report. Largest doesn't mean best, and campuses filing one report are counted together.
- Presbyterian HospitalAlbuquerque 772 beds(Medicare cost report FY2024)
- UNM HospitalAlbuquerque 531 beds(Medicare cost report FY2025)
- Lovelace Medical CenterAlbuquerque 277 beds(Medicare cost report FY2025)
- Memorial Medical CenterLas Cruces 199 beds(Medicare cost report FY2024)
- St Vincent HospitalSanta Fe 175 beds(Medicare cost report FY2025)
Health insurance in New Mexico
New Mexico runs its own exchange, BeWellNM.
People and health care in New Mexico
From the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (2020–2024).
What nurses earn in New Mexico
Healthcare jobs and pay in New Mexico
Pay for the healthcare jobs with the most workers in New Mexico, from Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data (May 2025).
Questions about hospitals in New Mexico
How many hospitals are in New Mexico?
There are 54 open hospitals in New Mexico across 31 cities. 41 of them have an emergency department.
Which New Mexico city has the most hospitals?
Albuquerque, with 15 hospitals. Las Cruces is next with 4.
How long is the ER wait in New Mexico?
The median emergency room visit in New Mexico lasts 2 hr 48 min, 20 min longer than the US median of 2 hr 28 min. That is a 12-month median from CMS, not a live wait time.
How many New Mexico hospitals have 5 stars?
1 of the 23 New Mexico hospitals with a Medicare overall star rating have 5 stars, and 4 have 4 or 5 stars. The average rating is 2.5 out of 5.
Hospitals in neighboring states
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Source: hospital listings from CMS and public records; emergency room wait times (measure OP-18b) and overall star ratings from CMS Care Compare. Wait times are 12-month medians, not live. Where these figures come from.
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