A jury awards $54 million to an Albuquerque family, after the death of a loved one in a New Mexico nursing home. What went wrong, and what are state leaders doing to try and keep our nursing home facilities safe. Plus, New Mexico's smoking ban is now a month old. How is the program working, and what will it's long-term impact be? Those topics will be the examined on the next edition of KNME’s In Focus. The show airs on Channel 5 Friday, July 13 at 7:30 p.m. and repeats Sunday, July 15 at 7 a.m.
Guests will include Al Park, State Representative, Nathan Bush, American Cancer Society of New Mexico, David Rodriguez, New Mexico Health Department, Sondra Everheart, New Mexico's Aging and Long-term Services Department, and Shannon Cupka, New Mexico's Aging and Long-term Services Department.
In Focus is an in-depth, television news magazine focusing on the events, topics, and issues which shape peoples lives in the Southwest, covering issues that New Mexicans want to know more about, and is a fusion of KNME's award-winning journalistic, documentary and cultural local-production. The Producer of In Focus is Kevin McDonald. The Host, journalist Kate Nelson, is the Managing Editor of the Albuquerque Tribune.
Support for the 39-week season of In Focus has been provided by McCune Charitable Foundation. Closed Captioning of In Focus has been made possible by a gift from Mrs. Elspeth G. Bobbs.
Media Contact: Evy Todd, (505) 277-1218; e-mail: etodd@unm.edu