Headlines from National Outlets and 26 States
Donald Trump and Republicans have unleashed chaos in our health system, slashing over $1 trillion from Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act. Because of the largest health care cuts in history, hospitals, nursing homes, and care facilities across the country are reducing services, laying off workers, or closing their doors, leaving communities without essential care. People across the country are facing higher health care costs, traveling further to get care, and enduring longer wait times in overwhelmed emergency rooms. Trump and Republicans are leaving hard-working families in the dust, all so they could give another tax break to billionaires and big corporations.
Protect Our Care’s Hospital Crisis Watch is tracking the harm Donald Trump and Republicans’ spending bill is inflicting on American health care in real time – community by community, hospital by hospital.
KFF Health News: Projected Surge in Uninsured Will Strain Local Health Systems
KFF Health News: Trump’s Medicaid Cuts Were Aimed at ‘Able-Bodied Adults.’ Hospitals Say Kids Will Be Hurt.
STAT: Inside the Hospital ‘War Rooms’ Bracing for Medicaid Cuts
Forbes: Hospitals Face Financial Duress as Trump Tariffs and Payment Cuts Hit
Stateline: Rural Hospitals Often Scrap Labor and Delivery Services After Mergers, Study Finds
US News: Will the $50 Billion Rural Health Fund Be Enough to Offset Medicaid Cuts?
Modern Healthcare: Pediatric Care at Risk as ER Crowding Collides With Medicaid Cuts
Becker’s Hospital Review: OBBBA Impact Could Cost Hospitals $25B a Year: Report
The Daily Yonder: Rural Health Care Summit: Future Looks Grim for Rural Hospitals
Politico: The Rural Health ‘Hunger Games’ Are Underway
NPR: Trump’s Medicaid Cuts Will Hit Some Children’s Hospitals
Axios: New Clinic Closings Reignite Fears About Rural Care
OtherWords: Rural Communities Brace for Trump’s Health Cuts
BenefitsPRO: New Law to Cut Federal Spending Could Cost Hospitals Billions
AlterNet: ‘Tremendous Pressure’: GOP Senator Predicts Party Will Fold Over Rural Hospital Closures
Alaska
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner: Healy Clinic Announces It’s Closing by November
Arkansas
Arkansas Advocate: Southwest Arkansas Needs More Funding for Health Services, Providers and Law Enforcement Say
California
LA Times: Another California County Is Losing Its Only Hospital as Feds Reclassify It
LA Times: Another California County Is Losing Its Only Hospital After Feds Refuse to Step In
SF Gate: An entire California county will soon be without an ER
Cal Matters: As RFK Pushes MAHA, Federal Cuts Shut Down California Health and Nutrition Programs
Press Democrat: Providence Said to Be Eying Closure of Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital Inpatient Pediatric Wing
Red Bluff Daily News: Glenn County Hospital May Close Sooner Than October as Staff Leave
Colorado
Loveland Reporter-Herald: McKee Medical Center ER Closure Leaves One Hospital in Ambulance District
BizWest: Banner Laying off 351 Workers Amid McKee ER Closure
Vail Daily: For Eagle County’s Health Care Providers, Federal, State Funding Cuts Will Take a Toll
Kiowa County Press: Rural Health Care Summit: Future Looks Grim for Rural Hospitals
Florida
Click Orlando: Pregnant Mothers Left Scrambling Amid UF Health Leesburg Hospital Delivery Unit Closure Announcement
Georgia
Albany Herald: As Medicaid Support Shrinks, Rural Georgia Braces for Health Care Fallout
Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Report: Some Georgia Nursing Homes at Risk of Closure From Medicaid Cuts
WABE: Rural Georgia Hospital to Close Its Labor and Delivery Unit, in Part Due to Medicaid Cuts
AJC Politics: Medicaid Cuts Ahead Prompt Lavonia Hospital to Shutter Childbirth Unit
FOX 5 Atlanta: St. Mary’s to End Lavonia Birthing Services, Shift Care to Athens Hospital
FOX 5 Atlanta: Ossoff: ‘Trump’s Budget Law’ Linked to Lavonia Hospital No Longer Offering Birthing Services
WSBTV: Lavonia Hospital Closing Labor and Delivery Unit, Forcing Patients to Travel for Care
Georgia Recorder: Rural Georgia Hospital Plans to Close Its Labor and Delivery Unit, in Part Due to Medicaid Cuts
Georgia Sun: A Georgia Hospital Is Closing Its Labor and Delivery Unit Due to Medicaid Cuts
WSAV: Rural Hospitals Evaluating Budgets and Services Amid Medicaid Cuts
Atlanta News First: Northeast Georgia Hospital Cuts Labor and Delivery Services, Consolidates Care in Athens
WTOC: Local Rural Hospital Losing Millions of Dollars Following Cuts From One Big Beautiful Bill Act
WYFF 4: Northeast Georgia Hospital Unit Closure Leaves Pregnant Women Scrambling for Care
Illinois
WGN 9: Elk Grove Village Hospital to Discontinue Labor and Delivery Services
Iowa
Des Moines Register: Rural Iowa Hospitals Brace for Big, Beautiful Bill’s Medicaid Cuts. Some Could Close.
Kentucky
Forward Kentucky: Is Your Hospital About to Close?
WUKY: That Rural Hospital Fund in the GOP Megabill? It Comes With Strings
Massachusetts
WBUR: Rural Health Care Clinics in Mass. Brace for Medicaid Cuts
WBUR: How Medicaid Cuts Will Hurt Every Hospital — Including Yours
Michigan
TV6: Aspirus Ironwood to Transition Maternal Care Services
TV6: Aspirus Ironwood Nurses Protest Planned OB Department Closure
The Mining Journal: Aspirus to Close Another Obstetrics Unit, Sparking Anger From Legislators, Nursing Staff
WXPR: Nurse Speaks on OB Closure, Stalled Contract in Ironwood
The Collegian: Hillsdale Hospital Reacts to Medicaid Reforms
Minnesota
Minnesota Star-Tribune: Mayo Closing Six Clinics, Moving Some Surgeries Out of Albert Lea Hospital
Minnesota Star-Tribune: Mayo’s Closure of St. Peter Clinic Is a Symptom of Shifting Rural Health Care
Minnesota Star-Tribune: As Mayo Clinic Pulls Back, Small Towns Work On What’s Next
KSTP: Mayo Clinic Closing 6 Facilities in Minnesota
Fillmore County Journal: Mayo Clinic Health System to Close Caledonia Clinic; City Officials Express Concern
Minn Post: How Mayo’s Greater Minnesota Clinic Closures Will Affect Communities
FOX 9: Allina Health, Mayo Clinic Close Facilities in Minnesota
Kare 11: Allina Health to Close Programs in Fridley, Minneapolis; Public Hearing Set for Sept. 25
Post-Bulletin: ‘We’re Not Getting What We Deserve’: Southeast Minnesotans React to Mayo Clinic Service Cuts
Mississippi
Parents: What Mississippi’s Public Health Emergency Over Infant Deaths Reveals About OB Deserts
Missouri
Missouri Independent: ‘And That’s All Gone’: Rural Health Centers in Missouri Close, End Continuous Local Care
Nevada
Las Vegas Sun: Trump’s New Law Will Limit Payments to Hospitals That Treat Low-Income Patients
New York
Examiner News: Lawler Faces Scrutiny as Medicaid Cuts Threaten Local Hospitals
WRFA: Absolute of Westfield Closing, Affects 93 Jobs
Observer Today: Westfield Absolut Layoffs to Total 93
WGRZ: Kaleida Surgery Center Closures Reflect Strategic Response to Medicaid Cuts
Buffalo Toronto Public Media: Patients and Providers Rally Against Closures of Kaleida Outpatient Facilities
Buffalo Business First: Kaleida to Close Amherst Center, Citing Federal Funding Cuts
North Carolina
News & Observer: Mental Health Homes in Durham, Chatham Closing; Owner Faces Probe, Medicaid Cuts
Citizen-Times: Asheville-Area Health, Legal, Faith Leaders Host ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Community Forum
Ohio
Cincinnati.com: UC Health Lays off 50 Workers and Eliminates Mobile Stroke Unit in Budget Cutting Move
Dayton Daily News: Town Hall to Address Possibility of Nursing Home Closures
Oregon
OPB: A Rural Oregon Town Lost Its Maternity Ward. As Trump’s Medicaid Cuts Loom, Other Hospitals May Be Next
OPB: Providence Will Permanently Close Pediatric Intensive Care Unit in Portland Area
KOIN: According to Providence, “Ohsu and Legacy Have Expressed Their Readiness to Support PICU Needs in the Community.”
OregonLive: Portland-Area Hospital to Close Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Pennsylvania
Bucks County Beacon: Health Care Advocates in Delaware County Put Legislators on Notice: Stop Allowing Hospital and Health Care Closures to Continue
Go Erie: Dying for Health Care Solutions in Erie County and America | Opinion
Rhode Island
KGW8: Providence Seaside Hospital to Shut Down Labor and Delivery, Newborn Care Services: ‘Very Sad and Difficult Decision’
KGW8: Providence St. Vincent Is Closing Its Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Tennessee
WREG Memphis: Healthcare Access at Risk Due to Funding Cuts in the Big Beautiful Bill
Texas
Spectrum News 1: Some Texas Cities Are Getting New Hospitals While Rural Areas Try to Keep the Doors Open
Virginia
VA Dogwood: Virginia Republicans Silent as Trump’s Medicaid Cuts Blamed for Rural Clinics Closing
News Leader: Warner and Kaine Respond to Augusta Health Clinic Closures
Richmond Times-Dispatch: Three VA Health Clinics Close as Trump Tax Law Squeezes System
Virginia Mercury: Augusta Health Closes Three Clinics, Citing One Big Beautiful Bill Act
WVTF: Augusta Medical Group Closing Three Clinics
WHSV: Augusta Medical Group to Consolidate Clinics, Partly in Response to ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
Augusta Free Press: Big Ugly Bill Fallout | Augusta Medical Group Closing Three Primary Care Facilities
Augusta Free Press: Warner, Kaine on Augusta Health OBBB Closures | ‘Partisan Tax Bill’ to Blame
Black Virginia News: Trump Budget Cuts Rural Health Centers Close in Southwest; Flyer on Earle-Sears Links Her to Trump Admin’s Education Cuts
WSET:: Some Patients Will Have to Travel for Healthcare as Buena Vista Clinic Closes
WBDJ7: Augusta Health Primary Care Closing in Buena Vista
Virginia Independent: Three Virginia rural health clinics closing due to Trump’s budget law
Washington
Cascade PBS: Rural Washington Hospitals Brace for Fallout From Medicaid Cuts
EMS1: Medicaid Overhaul Puts Rural Washington Hospitals at Risk
KOMO: Town Hall: The Future of Medicaid
West Virginia
Dominion Post: Report: 13 WV Rural Hospitals at Risk for Closure