 SANTA FE, N.M. AP - The New Mexico Attorney Generals Office said Monday its considering a request by a state lawmaker to look into an Albuquerque rehabilitation center as part of the agencys ongoing review of health and safety concerns at nursing homes and other long-term care facilities. The office received a request Friday from state Rep. Gregg Schmedes to investigate the eviction of senior residents with disabilities at Canyon Transitional Rehabilitation Center to make room for coronavirus patients. The Tijeras Republican called the forced move unconscionable and indefensible. Evicting these senior citizens from their long-term care facility is another example of the state of New Mexico inappropriately rationing health care, he wrote in a letter to Democrat Attorney General Hector Balderas. He noted that coronavirus relief measures adopted by Congress prohibit the eviction of anyone who cannot pay rent during the pandemic, but the patients at Canyon were evicted simply to free up space for a more lucrative tenant. All 54 patients at the rehab center were forced out in April as part of an agreement with state health officials to take in coronavirus patients as soon as possible. Albuquerque television station KRQE reported that under the agreement, Canyon would receive 600 a day for each COVID-19 patient admitted and 600 a day for each empty bed, up to 30 empty beds. Before the agreement, KRQE reported the long-term care facility was receiving about 280 a day to care for a 102-year-old patient, for example. Its devastating. I feel there is just a total lack of consideration for the families and for the residents at Canyon, said Jennifer Shoman, whose 84-year-old mother was forced to leave the facility. I feel like my mom was... 