![Senate Bills 17 and 161 will both help rural hospitals in New Mexico like Rehoboth McKinley Christian Hospital stay on their feet. File Photo](/images/resized/images/news/2024/468_mar22/28_100_100.jpg)
Rural hospitals got some much-needed assistance from the state Legislature this year, in the form of bills that will help with short- and long-term funding. But that may have cost local governments: there’s only so much money to go around, so other local priorities got less than they hoped for or may have to wait another year.
“All the money we got was for the hospital, basically,” McKinley County Manager Anthony Dimas said. “Our number one priority was to save our hospital, so that’s what they gave us.”
Most of the funding designated in the session will become available July 1 with the start of the 2025 fiscal year.
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Passage of Senate Bill 17, the...