After Donald Trump and Republicans slashed more than $1 trillion from Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, the largest health care cuts in history, the fallout is spiraling. Republicans ignited a cascade of closures and service cuts that is reaching every corner of the country. Protect Our Care has tracked over 1,100 hospitals, nursing homes, maternity wards, and other providers that are closing, cutting essential services, or facing the risk of closure or cuts. Rural hospitals are being pushed to the brink, maternity care deserts are expanding, and communities are losing access to the doctors, nurses, and health care services they depend on.
Health care leaders on the front line are sounding the alarm. In Indiana, HealthLinc CEO Melissa Mitchell warned, “Medicaid cuts are killing us,” noting previously financially stable providers are making cuts, laying off staff, and closing their doors. As more Americans lose coverage and providers struggle to stay afloat, the nation’s health care crisis is growing worse by the day.
Protect Our Care’s Hospital Crisis Watch tracks every closure, every cut, and every community left behind after Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress gutted American health care to bankroll tax breaks for billionaires.
Recent National Coverage
Becker’s Hospital Review: As Rural Hospitals Close ORs, Surgical Care Deserts Are Expanding Too
Stat: Hospital Chain HCA Warns of Lower Profits as More Patients Go Uninsured
The American Prospect: Trump Funding Cuts Endangering City and Rural Hospitals Alike
Health Care Business News: Inadequate Payments From Private Insurers Are Driving Rural Hospital Closures: Report
Becker’s ASC Review: 720 Rural Hospitals Are at Risk. Just 6% of ASCs Are There to Catch the Fallout
Arizona
Tucson Sentinel: Small Tucson Hospital Announces Closure, Layoff of 99 Staff
California
ABC7: MLK Jr. Community Hospital, Vital to LA Community, Could Shut Down Again Due to Medicaid Cuts
KERO: Dignity Health Closing Tehachapi Clinic and Laying off 57 in Bakersfield, Amid CommonSpirit Financial Strain
Redding Record Searchlight: Eastern Shasta County Mental Health Center Closing Leaves Gap in Care
ABC23: Nurses Protest Dignity Health Layoffs Outside Mercy Hospital, Warn of Patient Care Risks
Illinois
WBEZ: ‘Where Do They Go?’ What West Side Patients Face After Their Hospital Closes.
Indiana
WVPE: Federal, State Medicaid Cuts Drive Low-Income Health Clinic Merger
Massachusetts
Western Mass News: Closure of Vermont Birthing Center Could Affect Healthcare in Mass.
WWLP: Nurses Voice Concerns Over Staff Cuts at Baystate Franklin Medical Center
Michigan
WWMT: Insight Hospital in Coldwater Temporarily Suspending Inpatient Behavioral Health Services
WZZM: Layoff Lands Michigan Hospital in Legal Dispute
WDIV: Michigan Rural Hospitals Are Suffering, Here’s What Happened
Mississippi
Mississippi Today: This County Lost Its Hospital. Bringing It Back Is Easier Said Than Done
Mississippi Today: Pregnant Woman’s Roadside Death Triggers Push To Reopen Mississippi Delta Hospital
New Jersey
NJ.com: Intensive Care at 2 Hospitals in Rural N.J. County Could Be Ending Soon
NJ.com: These 8 N.J. Hospitals Are Most Vulnerable to Trump’s Healthcare Cuts, New Report Reveals
NJ.com: Opinion: N.J. Lost 29 Hospitals in Three Decades. Now Medicaid Cuts Could Claim More
New York
Long Island Newsday: NUMC Closes Maternity Services Indefinitely
Becker’s Hospital Review: Bankrupt New York System to Close Hospital Labor, Delivery Unit
WPTZ: Hospital Announces Closure of Birthing Center in St. Lawrence County
WWNY: North Star Closing Labor and Delivery Services at Claxton-Hepburn
WWNY: Anger & Shock After Plans to End Claxton-Hepburn’s Labor and Delivery Services
NNY 360: Nurses Union Condemns Claxton-Hepburn Maternity Ward Closure
Ohio
WCMH: Concerns About Newborn Transfers Grow as Maternity Unit Closure Nears for Delaware Hospital
South Carolina
Charleston Post & Courier: Affordable Greenville Health Clinic Lost 43 Percent of Funding to Federal Cuts. Now It’s Closing.
Greenville News: Unity Health on Main Ends Patient Care After $800,000 Loss in Funding
Texas
Lufkin Daily News: Maternal Health ‘Deserts’ Endanger Some Texas Women, Babies
Washington D.C.
Washington Post: Hospital That Delivers a Third of D.C. Babies to Close a Postpartum Unit
Vermont
WCAX: Adult Day Services Ending at Vermont Hospital
WPTZ: Brattleboro Hospital Staff and Community Supporters Fight to Try and Save Hospital’s Birthing Center
Bennington Banner: Planned Birthing Center Closure Prompts Broader Conversation
Vermont Public: Brattleboro Memorial Says It Needs Help to Keep Its Birth Center Open. Gov. Scott Isn’t Stepping In
Vermont Public: Springfield Hospital Plans to Close Its Adult Day Program, Leaving Caregivers Fewer Respite Options