Protect Our Care’s Hospital Crisis Watch Map Now Tracks 700 Providers at Risk or Closing Due to the Trump-GOP Health Care Crisis
While billionaires and big corporations bask in the GOP-engineered bonanza of wealth created for the top 1%, the American health care system is in free fall. In Kansas, 30 hospitals are in immediate danger of vanishing from their communities. In Pennsylvania, 12 to 14 hospitals are set to disappear. In Colorado, 70 percent of hospitals report running on unsustainable margins. Nationwide, over 700 hospitals, maternity wards, nursing homes, and other critical providers are at risk of cutting services or shutting down altogether. This is a full-blown health care crisis — one sparked by Donald Trump and congressional Republicans gutting Medicaid to bankroll billionaire tax breaks.
At the ballot box in November, voters won’t forget who caused this tidal wave of provider closures. As rural hospitals shut down, clinics shutter, and birthing centers close their doors, voters will remember exactly who put billionaire giveaways ahead of working people’s health care.
National Coverage
Business Insider: Hundreds of America’s Rural Hospitals Have Vanished. Maps Show Closures by State.
MedCity News: Navigating Uncertainty: Hospitals Confront Medicaid Cuts
Axios: Medical Groups Sound Alarm on Emergency Care for Kids
WebProNews: America’s Rural Hospitals Closing Fast, Sparking Health Deserts
MedicalXPress: GOP Cuts Will Cripple Medicaid Enrollment, Warns CEO of Largest Public Health Plan
Arkansas
Becker’s Hospital Review: Arkansas Hospital to File for Bankruptcy
California
San Francisco Chronicle: ‘Not What My Patients Deserve’: Medicaid Cuts, Layoffs Plunge East Bay Hospital System Into Disarray
San Francisco Chronicle: Opinion: Death Spared My Brother-In-Law From the Impossible Realities of Trump’s Medicaid Cuts
KQED: ‘I’d Be Left Alone’: Medicaid Cuts Put Disabled Patients’ In-Home Care at Risk
Bakersfield Now: Analysts Find GOP Medicaid Cuts in BBB Hurt Rural Healthcare
Colorado
KKCO 11 News: Colorado Hospitals Face Financial Crisis as 70% Report Unsustainable Margins
Georgia
WABE: Kemp, Georgia Legislature Signal Health Care Isn’t Priority as Federal Aid Losses Mount
Georgia Public Broadcasting: New Report Outlines Role of Medicaid in Georgia and How Policymakers Can Prepare for Federal Cuts
11 Alive: Medicaid, ACA Cuts Could Hit Vulnerable
Idaho
Inlander: Rural Hospitals Juggle Long-Term Budget Cuts With Short-Term Cash Infusions Under New Federal Health Policy
Idaho News 6: Idaho Caregivers Warn Medicaid Cuts Would Devastate Home Care; Lawmakers Say Flexibility Is Limited
Illinois
KWQC: Rural Illinois Hospitals Warn of Service Cuts Without State Funding
25 News Now: Illinois Medicaid Program Faces Looming Funding Crisis Due to Federal Changes
25 News Now: East Peoria Nursing Home Weeks Away From Closing Its Doors
Indiana
Indiana Daily Student: Greene County Hospital Shutters Ob Services, Leaving More Rural Hoosiers Without Care
South Bend Tribune: Rural Hospitals Face Uncertainty as Funding Questions Persist
Iowa
MeidasTouch News: Rural Iowa Clinics Are Shutting Down Due to Trump’s Budget; It Could Mean Trouble for House Republicans
Akron Hometowner: Britton Chiropractic & Rehab Clinic Set to Close in Akron
Kansas
Hays Post: Haysmed Faces Economic Pressures, Operating at a Loss
Hays Post: Why 30 Hospitals in Kansas and 12 in Missouri Are at Risk of Closure
Mississippi
Star-Herald: Funding Uncertainty Puts Mississippi’s Rural Hospitals and Economies at Risk
Mississippi Free Press: Thousands of Mississippians Could Lose Medicaid, CHIP Coverage Under Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill
Nebraska
1011 NOW: Nebraska Hospital Leaders Warn Mounting Financial Challenges and Medicaid Cuts Could Affect Care Access
New Hampshire
NH Business Review: NH Rural Health Care Faces Challenges Despite New Grant
New York
WWNY: North Star Lays off 100 Employees Amid Ongoing Uncertainty
North Carolina
The Chronicle: Medicaid Cuts Could Cause Duke Health to Lose Hundreds of Millions. Here’s How
Ohio
Logan Daily News: Hospital Taking Steps to Address Viability Concerns
Oklahoma
The Oklahoman: Advocates Say Grants for Rural Hospitals Won’t Make Up for Medicaid Cuts
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Study: A Dozen More Pennsylvania Hospitals Could Face Closure by 2030
Pocono Record: Report: Pa. Hospitals Face Increasingly Precarious Financial Future
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: ‘Couldn’t Find a More Perfect Clinic’: How Former Patients of a Shuttered UPMC Methadone Center Are Faring
Pittsburgh Business Times: Hospital Association Warns of Widespread Closures Across Pennsylvania as Margins Turn Negative
Philadelphia Business Journal: Up to 14 Pennsylvania Hospitals Face Closure Risk, Report Warns
Pennsylvania Independent: After a Year of Trump, Costs Are Rising for Pennsylvanians
TribLIVE: Pa. Gets $193M From Federal Rural Health Fund Amid Warnings It Won’t Offset Medicaid Cuts
Virginia
WHSV: Sen. Kaine Visits Harrisonburg Clinic to Discuss Rural Health Care
West Virginia
Charleston Gazette-Mail: ‘It Won’t Be Enough’: Justice Talks Rural Healthcare Funding in Wake of Medicaid Cuts
Rhode Island
WPRI: Future Still Unclear for Roger Williams, Fatima Hospitals With No Deal in Place
South Dakota
Mitchell Republic: Douglas County Leaders Work to Preserve Local Senior Care After Corsica Nursing Home Closure
Dakota News Now: Douglas County Task Force Remains Hopeful to Find Solution for Nursing Home
Washington
Inlander: Rural Hospitals Juggle Long-Term Budget Cuts With Short-Term Cash Infusions Under New Federal Health Policy
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Examiner: Wis. Hospital Funding Uncertain; Dem Lawmakers Call On U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden to Help