First Reported in Pulse, Protect Our Care is Kicking off Our Seven-Figure Campaign to Hold Trump and His Allies’ Feet to the Fire for Putting Hospitals in Crisis, Kicking Millions Out of Coverage, and Making Americans Sick Again.
Last week, Protect Our Care and Senator Murphy (D-CT) announced another dark milestone: over 750 hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, and other critical providers have closed, are at risk of closing, or have cut essential services because Trump and congressional Republicans gutted $1 trillion from Medicaid to bankroll tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations. In Mississippi, more than half of the state’s rural hospitals are on the cusp of disappearing from the communities they serve. In California, seven public health clinics are set to close their doors in Los Angeles alone. And the damage from Trump and Republicans siphoning Medicaid funding to pad the pockets of billionaire donors extends far beyond provider closures. In Idaho, Medicaid cuts forced the state to slash critical mental health services, and two patients have already died after losing access to care.
Trump didn’t utter a single sentence about communities losing their hospitals and clinics or his pitiful rural health fund at SOTU. But that doesn’t matter. Voters know who derangedly orchestrated the financial tsunami threatening critical providers. And for those who don’t, Protect Our Care will be sounding the alarm in our new, month-long, seven-figure campaign: “Technical Foul: The GOP’s Health Care Madness.”
Recent National Coverage:
Raw Story: Republicans Facing ‘Escalating Backlash’ as Signature Bill Closes More Hospitals: Report
CNN: Hospitals Are Making Cuts After ‘Big Beautiful Bill,’ Fueling Democrats’ Midterm Attacks
MoneyDigest: Crisis Looms: Medicaid Cuts Could Force Over 100 Hospitals To Close
The Daily Yonder: Advocates, Economists Question Effects of Rural Health Transformation Fund
Contemporary Pediatrics: Rural Hospitals Report Reduced Access to Higher-Level Neonatal Care
STAT: The Rural Health Transformation Program Could Fail Patients Like Mine | Opinion
Alabama
Montgomery Advertiser: Can Jackson Hospital Be Saved? State Offers $40 Million
Arizona
Arizona Daily Sun: Northern Arizona Healthcare Ends Consideration of 3 Possible Hospital Sites, Citing Financial Challenges From Medicaid Cuts
California
GV Wire: Valley Hospitals, Clinics Brace for Financial ‘Tsunami’ Threatening Health Care Access
ABC7: LA County to Close 7 Public Health Clinics Due to Funding Cuts
Parriva: LA County to Close 7 Public Health Clinics Amid $50M Budget Cuts — Latino Communities Face Disruptions
Capital & Main: What It’s Like On the Front Line as Health Care Cuts Start to Hit
Berkeleyside: Alameda County Looks for $10M to Stave off Health Care Layoffs and Program Closures
Florida
The Palm Beach Post: What Jupiter Medical closing pediatric unit means for children’s care
Indiana
WHAS11: Indiana Hospitals Face $1B Loss; Delivery Departments Closing Amid Low Reimbursement Rates
Fox19: St. Elizabeth Nurse Practitioner Speaks Out After Hospital Announces ICU Closure, or Cutbacks
Kentucky
WKYT: Pending Closure of Popular Birthing Unit Has Mothers Scrambling to Find Options
Maine
Maine Public: Maine Family Planning Clinics Seek State Help to Offset Recent Federal Funding Cuts
Massachusetts
MassLive: Baystate Health Layoffs: 117 Jobs Cut
Boston 25 News: Miles to Deliver: Safety Risks for Mothers Rising After Mass. Hospital Closure
Michigan
WILX: Rural Michigan Hospitals Worry Federal Funding Cuts Could Impact Key Services
9&10 News: Federal Cuts Lead to Nearly $1 Billion Healthcare Funding Loss for Michigan
Minnesota
Fox9: HCMC at Risk of Closure Without State Aid
Minnesota Star Tribune: Minneapolis’ Public Hospital Plans to Eliminate 100 Beds in Latest HCMC Budget Cuts
CBS News: HCMC at “Real Risk of Closing” Without Additional 1-Cent Sales Tax, Hennepin County Claims
Mississippi
WAPT: More Than Half of Mississippi’s Rural Hospitals at Risk of Closure, Report Finds
Missouri
The Missouri Times: Missouri’s Rural Health Care Faces Continued Strain
Becker’s Hospital Review: Mississippi Hospital to Close in March
New Jersey
NJBIZ: Heights Hospital ER Faces Closure in Jersey City
Gothamist: Troubled Jersey City Hospital to Close Saturday, Drawing Outcry From Nurses, City Leaders
ABC7: Closing of Jersey City Emergency Room Delayed After Community Pushback
New York
Buffalo Business First: Buffalo General Cuts Rehab Unit in Half, Eliminating 22 Jobs
Staten Island Advance: Overnight Ambulance Service Cut at Richmond University Medical Center
WPSU: Erie Company to Acquire Bradford Regional Medical Center, but Emergency Department Is Still Closing
North Carolina
Cardinal & Pine: Mission Hospital Nurses Detail the ‘Moral Distress’ of Working Understaffed
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Capital-Star: Bradford Hospital Submits Closure Notice to End Emergency, Inpatient and Long-Term Care Services
WIVB: Bradford Hospital Closing ER and Inpatient Services
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Struggling Rural Pennsylvania Hospital Prepares to Close
Spotlight PA: New Money for Rural Health Care Isn’t Easing Closure Worries
Virginia
Virginia Business: Virginia Health Systems Face $26B in Federal Cuts