Lovelace Medical Center - Downtown

601 Martin Luther King Jr Avenue North East
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Lovelace Medical Center - Downtown is a hospital located in Albuquerque, NM. It has 2 specialty units, including Adult and Pediatric and Intensive Care. This hospital reports jointly with Lovelace Medical Center - Gibson. Therefore the ratings and awards apply to multiple hospitals and this specific hospital may not provide all rated services.  
 
 
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Hospital Profile

Address
601 Martin Luther King Jr Avenue North East
Albuquerque, New Mexico (NM)
Provider Type
Acute Care
Ownership
Private
Accepts Medicare
Yes
Accepts Medicaid
Yes
 

HealthGrades Hospital Ratings

Cardiac services: At national average in 3 of 3 areas

Critical Care services: At national average in 3 of 4 areas

Gastrointestinal services: At national average in 4 of 5 areas

General Surgery services: At national average in 1 of 2 areas

Orthopedic services: At national average in 4 of 4 areas

Pulmonary services: At national average in 2 of 2 areas

Vascular services: At national average in 1 of 1 areas

Hospital Features

Lovelace Medical Center - Downtown is a Short Term hospital. The facility has 210 beds of which 198 are Adult and Pediatric and 12 are Intensive Care.

  • Total beds
210
  • Intensive Care beds
12
  • Adult and Pediatric beds
198
  • Teaching Hospital
Yes
 
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Procedures/Diagnosis costs are above the state average in 2 of 9 procedures
Length of Stay is at the state average in 9 of 9 procedures
Hospital Service Lines Cost Length of Stay
Coronary Interventional Procedures (Angioplasty/ Stent) dollar icon dollar icon bed icon bed icon
Heart Attack dollar icon dollar icon bed icon bed icon
Heart Failure dollar icon dollar icon bed icon bed icon

Cardiac Doctors Associated with this Hospital

+ Cardiology
+ Cardiothoracic Surgery
+ Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
+ Interventional Cardiology
Top 10 Procedures and Diagnoses
bullet Pneumonia
bullet Gastrointestinal Bleed
bullet Heart Failure
bullet Sepsis
bullet Heart Attack
bullet Hip Fracture Repair
bullet Coronary Interventional Procedures (Angioplasty/ Stent)
bullet Respiratory Failure
bullet Stroke
bullet Bowel Obstruction
 

There can be enormous quality differences between one hospital and another, and between one doctor and another.

For example, a recent study by HealthGrades found that a typical patient would have, on average, a 69 percent lower chance of dying in a five-star rated hospital compared to a one-star rated hospital.

 
Source: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for years 2006 through 2008.
 
 

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