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Hi,

Please, don't move this post.

It's been at the New Mexico board for nearly a week, and zero replies.

Can ANYONE tell me ANYTHING about the hospital in Santa Fe? St. Vincent Medical Center.

Also, what did you think of Santa Fe?

Please, someone reply.....thanks :coollook:

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Hi,

Please, don't move this post.

It's been at the New Mexico board for nearly a week, and zero replies.

Can ANYONE tell me ANYTHING about the hospital in Santa Fe? St. Vincent Medical Center.

Also, what did you think of Santa Fe?

Please, someone reply.....thanks :coollook:

Hello, well I know a little bit about "out west" (I use to live out there) but not much about that hospital. So I found a site for you to look at:

http://www.stvin.org/index.asp?S=2

Santa Fe is beautiful, I'm sure you'll love it. Well, I hope that this helps a little!

~Crystal

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Thanks for the website but I have already been there and read it....what I am looking for are personal stories, experiences, etc., from people who have actually worked at that hospital and/or lived in Santa Fe.

Thanks again.....

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I can't give you a personal experience or the hospital specifically, but I can pass on the words of a friend who is a traveling nurse and lived there two years. She and her partner found it very difficult to live there as the pay was nothing compared to the cost of living and there was a huge seperation of the classes based on the rich and the poor and two RN's in one house in Santa Fe= Poor.

I have considered Santa Fe as well but I hear it's hard to get by and once you are there you are stuck b/c financially hard to save to get out. And we live in California where a house starts at $750,000, so Santa Fe must be much worse than that.

Good luck!

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Hi,

Please, don't move this post.

It's been at the New Mexico board for nearly a week, and zero replies.

Can ANYONE tell me ANYTHING about the hospital in Santa Fe? St. Vincent Medical Center.

Also, what did you think of Santa Fe?

Please, someone reply.....thanks :coollook:

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I can't give you a personal experience or the hospital specifically, but I can pass on the words of a friend who is a traveling nurse and lived there two years. She and her partner found it very difficult to live there as the pay was nothing compared to the cost of living and there was a huge seperation of the classes based on the rich and the poor and two RN's in one house in Santa Fe= Poor.

That's what I keep hearing, "a friend of a friend", no first-hand reports.....but if she was a travel nurse and stayed there 2 years, there must have been SOMETHING good about it. Most travel contracts are only for 13 weeks. If she didn't like the area, I don't know why she would have stayed for 2 years.

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Specializes in NICU, Infection Control.

Can you find a local newspaper online? Can you take a field trip? A weekend? Go for an interview? If church is a thing you do, you can drop in one of your affiliation, and see how it feels.

Just suggestions.

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Hey I love your cute avatar. :)

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Specializes in NICU, Infection Control.

Thanks. What about my adorable suggestions? ;)

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LOL, those are adorable, too....I've found some newspapers online.

I would go there myself but it's about 1,300 miles away.....:coollook:

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Specializes in Medical/Surgical/Maternal and Child.

I did travel nursing at Gallup Indian Medical Center in Gallup, New Mexico a few years back and I kept hearing how people who were born and raised in Santa Fe had to move elsewhere because property values shot into the stratosphere when Santa Fe became the trendy place to live and the rich and famous were buying up all the choice properties. My folks were born in northern New Mexico and the sleepy little towns where they were born are now very trendy and very expensive to live in. New Mexico is gorgeous and I loved it when I was there. But I hear that if you work in Santa Fe you probably have to commute from one of the outlying towns because it's soooooo expensive to live there.

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What are some "outlying towns" near Santa Fe?

Somebody told me one called Eldorado (?) was the only town nearby and advised not going there...

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Specializes in Emergency.

Well here is a little insite on the people who live in that area. I worked in the southern part of the state for an air ambulance company. Through that I heard a company wanted to start an operation there. It was difficult because the whinny people around the hospital didnt want it there because it made to much noise. But on the other hand those same people whined more because it took so long when they did need said helo to save thier lives. SO that kind of gives you an idea of the mentality of the people there.

RJ:rolleyes:

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