HM 50 — COLLABORATION FOR EXCELLENT CARE

HOUSEA MEMORIAL 50ENCOURAGING 54THREGIONAL LEGISLATURE-COLLABORATION STATEFOR OFPROVIDING NEWEXCEPTIONAL MEXICOMENTAL -AND FIRSTPHYSICAL SESSIO,HEALTH 2019SERVICES INTRODUCEDAT BYALL TomásLEVELS E.OF CARE.

Salazar5 WHEREAS, New Mexico faces significant challenges in access to health care due to its large rural and Josephfrontier L.areas, with thirty-four percent of the state's two million one hundred thousand residents living in rural or frontier counties;

Sanchezand 6WHEREAS, 8New 10Mexico's Ageographically MEMORIALsparse ENCOURAGINGand REGIONALaging COLLABORATIONpopulation FORputs PROVIDINGpressure EXCEPTIONALon MENTALits ANDhealth PHYSICALcare HEALTHsystem, SERVICESand ATthe ALLracial LEVELSand OFethnic CARE.diversity of the state compared to the United States poses challenges in providing culturally sensitive health care;

14and WHEREAS, Newthere Mexicois faceslimited significant challenges in access to health care duein New Mexico, which is related to itsprimary largecare ruralprovider shortages and frontierlack areas,of withawareness thirty-fourof percentinsurance ofavailability, theaccording state'sto twoThe millionState oneof hundredHealth ein tNew 17Mexico thousand2018, residentsissued livingby inthe ruraldepartment orof frontierhealth counties;in April 2018;

and w l n d 18 WHEREAS, New Mexico's geographically sparse and aging = = 19 a l population puts pressure on its health care system, and the i a e r 20 racial and ethnic diversity of the state compared to the United a t m m 21 States poses challenges in providing culturally sensitive d r e 22 health care;

and c e s k 23 WHEREAS, there is limited access to health care in New e a n b 24 Mexico, which is related to primary care provider shortages and u [ lack of awareness of insurance availability, according to The .213940.1 State of Health in New Mexico 2018, issued by the department of health in April 2018;

coordination of rural health care services, HM 50 Page 1 school-based health clinics and private and public sector hospitals;

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transportation needs of patients in rural areas e e n d 18 to access health care;

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the feasibility of telemedicine and educational a l r i 20 outreach for the more rural health care facilities;

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other related and important components of health m m 21 e d r e 22 care delivery to improve the quality of care, effectiveness, c e r c 23 confidence in medical services and minimization of duplication e a n b 24 of efforts;

and u [ WHEREAS, faced with the challenges of a shortage of .213940.1 - 2 - doctors, nurses and other health care providers, it is important that the department of health and state health providers continue to communicate with each other to ensure proactive preventive health care to keep the populations in communities of all sizes as healthy as possible;

and WHEREAS, increased cooperation among health care providers will provide the ability to serve patients at all levels of needed care, from preventive to terminal, with a HM 50 Page 2 goal of providing quality health care at every level;

and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be transmitted to the secretary of health and the president of the e e 17 New Mexico hospital association for distribution.

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