CHRISTUS St. Vincent Regional Medical Center
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CHRISTUS St. Vincent Regional Medical Center is a general hospital
General hospital
A general hospital is a type of medical facility which is set up to deal with many kinds of disease and injury.General hospital may also refer to:*General Hospital, an American soap opera broadcast since 1963...

 located in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Santa Fe is the capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico. It is the fourth-largest city in the state and is the seat of . Santa Fe had a population of 67,947 in the 2010 census...

. The hospital is the oldest in the State of New Mexico
New Mexico
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, since being established in the downtown plaza
Santa Fe Plaza
Mirroring the traditional Spanish-American colonial cities, the Santa Fe Plaza is a National Historic Landmark in downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico. The plaza, or "city-square", was originally, and is still to this day, the center gathering place in town, or as many know it "the heart of Santa Fe." The...

 before it was moved in 1977 to developing St. Michaels Drive. It is the largest medical facility north of Albuquerque and the largest south of Pueblo, Colorado
Pueblo, Colorado
Pueblo is a Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous city of Pueblo County, Colorado, United States. The population was 106,595 in 2010 census, making it the 246th most populous city in the United States....

. It is the only Level III Trauma Center in Northern New Mexico
Northern New Mexico
Northern New Mexico may simply mean the northern part of New Mexico, but in cultural terms it usually means the area of heavy Spanish settlement in the north-central part....

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The hospital was acquired by CHRISTUS Health
CHRISTUS Health
CHRISTUS Health is a Texas based Catholic, non-profit health care company. The company includes more than 40 hospitals and other health care facilities in Texas, New Mexico, Louisiana, Arkansas, Utah, Oklahoma, Missouri, Georgia, and Mexico...

on April 9, 2008.
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