In communities from coast to coast, families are being forced to drive farther for emergency treatment, expectant mothers are losing nearby birthing centers, and children are losing access to pediatric care after Donald Trump and Republicans gutted over $1 trillion from Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act. Nurses, doctors, hospital leaders, and patients are sounding the alarm that clinics are closing, services are disappearing, and hospitals are being pushed to the brink, especially in rural areas where there may be nowhere else to turn. Behind every closure, layoff, and service cut are hard-working families left scrambling to find care, delaying treatment, rationing medication, or wondering what will happen in the next medical emergency.
Protect Our Care’s Hospital Crisis Watch has reached over 900 hospitals, nursing homes, maternity wards, and other critical providers that have closed, cut essential services, or are at risk of doing so since Trump and Republicans made massive health care cuts.
Recent National Coverage
NPR: ‘We’ll Never Know if He Could Have Been Saved.’ The Gaps in Trump’s Rural Health Fund
DocWireNews: Accelerating Strain and Reducing Access: How Rural Hospital Closures are Impacting Breast Cancer Screening and Treatment
Alaska
Anchorage Daily News: Opinion: The Cost of Closing a Clinic, Measured in More Than Dollars
Arkansas
KTHV: Arkansas Leaders Sound Alarm on Rural Healthcare Access
California
SFGate: SF Youth Clinic to Close After Trump Bill Causes $306M Cuts From City Budget
Times Standard: ‘Mad River Is Going to Survive’: Hospital Admin Discusses Job Cuts, Medicaid Peril
KNVN: Rural Hospital Closures Force Longer Ambulance Trips for Butte, Glenn County Patients
KNVN: Butte County Ambulances Handle 100 Calls Daily Amid Rural Challenges
KABC: What Is Measure ER? Why Some Say la County Sales Tax Increase Is Crucial After Health Cuts
Colorado
KUSA: Hospital System to Shutter Some Denver-Area Clinics
BizWest: Broomfield Clinic Among Intermountain Health Facilities Closing
Becker’s Hospital Review: Intermountain Health to Cut 93 Roles Amid Clinic Changes in 2 States
Florida
Florida Politics: Opinion: Rural Hospitals at Risk
Hawaii
Hawaii Public Radio: Kula Hospital’s Future Uncertain Amid Ongoing Post-Storm Closure
Illinois
Chicago Sun-Times: Closing of Oak Park’s West Suburban Medical Center Has Triggered a Legal Battle Among Its Owners
Iowa
Des Moines Register: Unitypoint, Wells Fargo Cutting West Des Moines Jobs
Maine
WCSH: Houlton Regional Hospital Nurses Plan Four-Day Strike Over Emergency Department Staffing
WAGM: Nurses at Houlton Regional Hospital Plan Four-Day Strike
Maryland
Cecil Whig: Public Meeting June 11 to Discuss Union Hospital Labor & Delivery Closure
CBS Baltimore: Cecil County’s Sole Birthing Center to Close In Late June
WMAR: Cecil County Executive Says Medicaid Patients Will Be Hurt by Union Hospital’s Birthing Center Closure
WMAR: Expectant Moms in Cecil County Will Soon Have to Leave the County to Give Birth
Minnesota
Twin Cities Business: What’s Behind Minnesota’s Shifting Hospital Systems?
Mississippi
Mississippi Free Press: Efforts to Save Greenwood Leflore Hospital Continue as Local Leaders Seek New Owner
Missouri
Columbia Missourian: Rural Hospitals Warn $50B in Grant Funding Won’t Offset Looming Federal Cuts
Montana
KTVQ: Intermountain Health Closing Lewistown Clinic, Cutting Jobs in Billings and Bozeman
New York
Mid Hudson News: Garnet-Montefiore Affiliation Advances Amid Concerns Over Hudson Valley Healthcare Access
North Country Public Radio: North Star Health Alliance to Close Watertown Pediatric Office
Becker’s Hospital Review: Bankrupt New York System to Close Pediatric Practice, Form Care Partnership
Spectrum News: North Star Health Alliance to Close Watertown Pediatrics Office Amid Bankruptcy Proceedings
NNY 360: North Star Closing Watertown Pediatrics Practice June 30
WWNY: Watertown Clinic to Close
North Carolina
KFF: Trump’s $50B Rural Health Bet Meets a Healthcare Desert in North Carolina
Pennsylvania
WHYY: St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in North Philly Announces Layoffs Ahead of Kidney Transplant Program Closure
Philadelphia Inquirer: St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children Announces Layoffs Ahead of Federal Medicaid Cuts
Rhode Island
Providence Journal: Care New England Cuts Leadership Staff to Cope With Economic Woes
WJAR: Care New England Cuts 30 Positions
Providence Business News: As Brown Health Operating Losses Deepen, Pressure Mounts to Save Newport Hospital Birthing Center
Newport Buzz: Opinion: Don’t Balance the Healthcare System on the Backs of Babies
Texas
Austin American-Statesman: Lakeway Hospital Will Stop Delivering Babies. How Far Will Patients Travel?
Austin American-Statesman: He Died at an Austin Psychiatric Hospital. His Case Reflects a Mental Health Crisis
Vermont
VTDigger: Hospitals Need to Cut Spending Drastically — But Do Their Plans Deliver?
Wyoming
Gillette News Record: Hoskinson Health and Wellness Clinic to Close July 31, Three Years After Opening
Cowboy State Daily: Gillette’s Hoskinson Health Clinic To Close, ‘No Longer Financially Sustainable’
County 17 News: Hoskinson Health & Wellness Clinic in Gillette Announces Plans to Close