The Las Cruces City Council held a work session on Monday, June 22, 2026, beginning in the afternoon. No agenda or minutes were provided; this summary is based on the raw transcript. The Council heard two presentations: Mountain View Regional Medical Center CEO Patrick Shannon reviewed hospital performance and expansion, and Las Cruces Fire Department case manager Wes Smith updated the Council on opioid settlement fund spending. The session ended with a motion to adjourn.
Your life. Well, good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to our city council work session. Today is Monday, June twenty second. If you'll all join me, we'll stand and offer a moment of silence for men and women of the military and our also our brave women and men from the police and fire department that protect our city twenty-four seven three sixty-five. If you join me in the pledge, I pledge allegiance to the flight of the United States of America. And I believe we have the CEO practic Patrick Sullivan. Come on. I'm sorry. Shannon. Shannon. Thank you, Mayor. Council members. Thank you for uh allowing me to be here today. It's an honor. Uh as Mayor said, my name is Patrick Shannon, CEO for Mountain View Regional. I've been there for about over four months now, so I'm new to Las Cruces and uh it's been very nice to be here, moved here. I've got a I bought a house here, so I'm here permanently. So I'll go ahead and uh start with the presentation. Wanted to show you guys a few things. Oh I clicked off. Is that the report? Okay. There we go. All right. I'm remembering my days. Okay. So this is the agenda. Just to tell you a little bit more about Mountain View and the overview and what we've been doing at the hospital. I also want to give the community benefit report, which I think the council will find interesting and what uh Mountain View contributes to the economy. We'll go through our quality and patient safety information, access to care, the economic impact, and then something that is very important to people in the community is what physicians are we trying to recruit to the area, and then our growth plans. This is our vision to make the health care experience exceptional for our patients, for the community and each other. Simple vision statement. But something that is easy, easy for our staff and physicians to remember. And then we have our new values and actions, values and action. And so you'll see put the patient first, work as a team, own it, always do the right thing, never settle, and then lead the way. And so when we're giving, like in you know, nominations for employee of the month, uh in all of our meetings, our board meetings and things that when we open up, we tie a story into one of these values in action. And so that really kind of makes it resonate and uh with our employees. These are our top five priorities. Uh you'll see these are in uh uh in order. So we've put quality first. So we've got then patient experience, uh, the physician experience, the employee satisfaction or their engagement, and then if you're doing those first four things right, the cash flow will come after that. The financials will follow. So uh we have made it uh uh uh a very important decision to put quality first at Mountain View. This is some of the things that we're recognized for, excellence and trauma, and I'll talk a little bit more in on the next slide about uh Mountain View being a level three trauma facility. Uh we're also certified in stroke cardiac bariatric surgery, maternal and neonatal services for our babies. So to put things into perspective, you know. So Mountain View opened in 2002. Um in 2025, I think we're at 24 years now this this year, but you'll see that we were doing about 3200 uh emergency room visits, and so we're up over 47,000 uh ER visits now. See the surgeries 1,300 in a year.