Carrie Tingley Children's Hospital

Carrie Tingley, wife of Governor Clyde Tingley, led the drive to open a hospital for New Mexico children suffering from polio.

The Tingleys chose Hot Springs, later named Truth or Consequences, located in southern New Mexico, as the site for the hospital. It was known for its healing mineral waters, and it resembled a similar site in Warm Springs, Georgia, where their friend President Franklin Roosevelt was treated for polio.

As polio became less widespread due to new vaccines, the hospital direction began to focus on other orthopedic conditions such as scoliosis, clubfoot, cerebral palsy and spina bifida.

In 1981, the hospital moved to Albuquerque to align itself closer with medical services and consultants here. In 1987, the UNM Board of Regents was appointed as the CTH Board of Directors. Subsequent legislative action merged Carrie Tingley Hospital with the UNM Medical Center.

Allegedly there are glowing rooms that have been seen in unused portions of the hospital as well as invisible “force fields” that sometimes stop people from passing through doors and hallways. These barriers make a hissing sound when encountered. Also reported are the sounds of sobbing, voices and heartbeats and black robed figures are seen in the darkened hallways.