Los Alamos Medical Center report highlights jobs, upgrades and charity care

Los Alamos Medical Center put more than $25.3 million into payroll for about 225 employees in 2025, paid $5,332,067 in taxes, and delivered nearly $3.8 million in services to people in need, a balance sheet that shows how much the hospital functions as both a health provider and a county economic engine. Released April 14, the annual community benefit report says the institution is working to support the health and economic vitality of Los Alamos and the surrounding region.

The report also shows the hospital investing in the kind of equipment and access controls that shape whether patients stay local or are sent elsewhere. In 2025, Los Alamos Medical Center reported more than $1.1 million in capital improvements, including a new nurse call system, a control access system, a mobile X-ray machine, ultrasound tables and a chiller. Those purchases affect more than appearances. They help staff work more efficiently, support care for more complex cases and can make it easier to hold onto clinicians who expect modern tools.

The specialty list grew as well. The hospital said it added providers in general surgery, gastroenterology, emergency medicine, orthopedics, sports medicine, urology and additional services during 2025. That expansion matters in a county where the nearest alternative can mean time away from work, school and family. The report’s mission language is equally direct: it says Los Alamos Medical Center seeks to create places where people choose to come for healthcare, physicians and providers want to practice, and employees want to work.

Compared with 2024, the hospital’s investment pattern looks more like continuation than reinvention. Last year’s community benefit report, released April 7, 2025 and led by then-CEO Tracie Stratton, said the hospital added 34 employed and independent providers, including emergency medicine, gastroenterology, OB/GYN, orthopedics, podiatry and telecardiology, while investing nearly $1.2 million in capital improvements. The 2025 report kept that push going, though with slightly lower capital spending and a different mix of specialties under interim CEO Bob Singletary.

The hospital’s reach extends beyond its walls. The report lists support for local athletics, the Chamber of Commerce, holiday events and food drives, along with the annual Teddy Bear Day Clinic for kindergarteners from Los Alamos. It also connects to the Northern New Mexico Health Grants Group, created after the 2002 sale of Los Alamos Medical Center and backed by Con Alma Health Foundation and the hospital auxiliary. In 2025, that group awarded $200,000 to ten nonprofit organizations across Los Alamos, Rio Arriba and northern Santa Fe counties, reinforcing the hospital’s role as a regional funder as well as a clinical anchor.