Protect Our Care’s Hospital Crisis Watch Map Now Tracks Over 700 Providers at Risk or Closing Due to the Trump-GOP Health Care Crisis
From rural towns to major metro areas, hospitals are struggling to keep their doors open as Republican health care cuts rip away resources and gut funding. Hospitals are cutting services or closing altogether, while patients are navigating longer distances, overcrowded emergency rooms, and a health care system stretched to its limits. Rural providers are raising the alarm as the GOP rural health pity fund fails to fill the gap in funding Republicans created. Communities are being left with nowhere to turn as routine emergencies become life-or-death crises. At the ballot box in November, voters won’t forget who stood by as hard-working families drowned and refused to throw them a life preserver.
Business Insider: Having a Baby in Rural America? Get Ready for a 3-Hour Drive.
CPR News: Rural Hospitals Wrestle With a New Landscape After Federal Cuts, Worry They’re Starting to Drown Financially
STAT News: HCA Expects $1 Billion Hit From Loss of Aca Tax Credits, Medicaid Changes
Healthcare Brew: ACA Marketplace Enrollment Dropped by 1.4m. How Will That Affect Hospitals?
Chief Healthcare Executive: Hospitals Face Blow With Lapse of Affordable Care Act Subsidies
Alabama
WAAY: Rural Alabama Hospitals at Risk as Healthcare Crisis Deepens
Arizona
AZ Mirror: Republicans Push Citizenship Questions at Hospitals as ICE Enters Medical Facilities
Arkansas
Arkansas Advocate: Hospital in South Arkansas Closes Maternity Ward, Adding to Region’s Shortage
California
The Guardian: As LA Maternity Wards Close, Patients Are Giving Birth in ERs: ‘There’s No System to Care for These Women’
Los Angeles Daily News: Pomona Valley Hospital Plans 265 Job Cuts
GV Wire: 10% of California Hospitals Threatened with Closure: Industry Group
Georgia
WSAV: Savannah Birth Center Closure Highlights Challenges in Georgia Maternal Health
Idaho
Local News 8: Medicaid Cuts, Declining Reimbursements Lead to Layoffs at Teton Valley Health Care
Teton Valley News: Teton Valley Health Care Announces Layoffs, Infusion Clinic Closure
Illinois
My Journal Courier: West-Central Illinois Hospitals Brace for Rise in Indigent Care Costs as Medicaid Cuts Loom
CBS: Stroger Hospital Bracing for Surge in Uninsured Patients Due to Federal Funding Cuts
Capital News Illinois: Providers Say Feds’ New Rural Health Care Grants to Illinois Won’t Cover Medicaid Cuts
Chicago Business: Hospitals in Rural Parts of State Confront Possibility of Loss of Services, Closings
Chicago Business: Safety Net Hospitals Set to Lose a Critical Lifeline
Indiana
FOX 59: Report: Indiana Hospitals Nearing ‘Breaking Point’ as Financial Pressures Mount
Indiana Capital Chronicle: Indiana Hospitals Warn of Cuts, Closures Without Lawmaker Intervention
Chicago Tribune: Indiana Hospitals Brace for Budget Squeeze With Medicaid Cuts
WFYI: Nearly Half of Indiana’s Hospitals Are Operating at a Loss. They Say They Need Help
Iowa
Des Moines Register: MercyOne Des Moines Announces Layoffs, Cites Federal Cuts
Maine
Maine Monitor: Her Labor Turned Dangerous. The Closest Hospital Had Just Stopped Delivering Babies.
Minnesota
Minnesota Star Tribune: Budget Woes Force 100 Job Cuts at Hennepin County’s Safety-Net Hospital
KARE: HCMS Lays Off 100 Employees as Its Financial Crisis Deepens
Modern Healthcare: Layoffs, Closures Tracker: Hennepin Healthcare Cuts Service Lines
MPR News: Hennepin Healthcare Cuts 100 Positions and 5 Medical Programs
Nebraska
Nebraska Public Media: Nebraska Hospitals Prepare to Face Policy Changes, Potential Cuts This Year
New York
Buffalo Business First: Buffalo Hospital to Lay Off 150, Impose Furloughs
Buffalo Business First: ‘This Is a Real Crisis for Health Care’: Buffalo Hospitals Brace as Financial Pressure Mounts
Daily Gazette: New York Hospitals Bracing for Medicaid Cuts Face Uncertain Landscape
North Dakota
North Dakota Monitor: Rural Hospitals Called ‘Not Optional’ as North Dakota Acts to Keep One Open
North Dakota Monitor: Rural North Dakota Hospital Seeks Lifeline in Legislative Session
Tennessee
WVLT: Sweetwater Hospital to Close Labor and Delivery Services
WATE: ‘Breakdown in Trust’ Nurses Resign as Sweetwater Hospital Closes Labor and Delivery Unit
Washington
Inlander: Rural Hospitals Juggle Long-Term Budget Cuts With Short-Term Cash Infusions Under New Federal Health Policy
The News Tribune: Tacoma Children’s Hospital Closes Gender-Affirming Care Clinic
Seattle Times: Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital to Close Gender Clinic