Bernalillo County and the University of New Mexico Hospital will stop working together to provide health care at the Metropolitan Detention Center when their agreement ends in July 2027, KOAT reports.
UNM Hospital and Bernalillo County mutually agreed that the hospital will end its dental, medical and behavioral health services at the jail when the current four-year agreement, which began in 2023, runs out, KOAT reports.
County Manager Cindy Chavez said working with UNM Hospital over the past three years has been "a tremendous opportunity to move MDC healthcare forward." She said bringing together the university and outside experts would let the county use the agreement’s final year to strengthen what it has built, learn from the challenges it has encountered and create "a thoughtful path forward for the next phase of care," KOAT reported.
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