Families across the country wake up every morning to new headlines about hospitals on the brink and clinics closing their doors – especially in rural communities. The health care crisis gripping these areas didn’t happen by accident. It’s the direct result of Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans’ $1 trillion health care betrayal that cut coverage and resources from working people to hand massive tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations. Now, rural hospitals are shuttering, nursing homes are struggling to stay afloat, and patients are being forced to drive hours for care that used to be available in their own towns.
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. Just three months after the passage of the bill, more than 500 providers are closing or at risk because of the GOP health care crisis – a grim milestone. We will continue ensuring that voters know who’s to blame for the deadly Republican health care cuts and hospital closures.
Afro News: Medicaid Cuts in Republicans’ Spending Bill Threaten Rural Hospitals, Disaster Preparedness
OSV News: Analysis: Catholics Brace for Medicaid Cuts’ Expected Major Impact on Rural Health Care
Arizona
AZ Central: Opinion: A VA Clinic Saved My Dad’s Life. Here’s How Federal Cuts Are a Danger, but Why We’re Not Powerless
California
Northern California Public Media: Providence Announces Closing of Pediatric Care Ward at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital
Georgia
Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Jon Ossoff Blames Trump as Another Georgia Hospital Shutters Some Services
CBS: Lavonia Hospital Closes Labor and Delivery Unit, Leaving Rural Families in Crisis
WABE: Federal Medicaid Cuts Placing More Pressure on Georgia’s Rural Hospitals, Advocates Say
WABE: In Rural Georgia, Pregnancy Care Could Get Even Harder to Find as Hospital Funds Shrink
Maine
Bangor Daily News: Opinion: When Washington Cuts Health Care Support, Rural Maine Bleeds
Minnesota
CCX Media: ‘Catastrophic’: Hennepin Healthcare Expects to Lose $1.5B With Medicaid Cuts
Missouri
KTTN: Dozens of Missouri Hospitals at Risk as Rural Crisis Deepens
New Hampshire
WMUR: NH’s Business: Rural Critical Care Hospitals in Two-Thirds of NH Face Millions in Medicaid Cuts, Fewer Medicare Plans
New York
WKTV: Why Presbyterian Home in New Hartford Is Closing Its Doors
North Carolina
NC Newsline: NC Hospitals Provided $7.4B in Benefits Last Year, Report Says, but Face Risks From Medicaid Cuts
Oklahoma
The Oklahoman: Oklahoma Hospitals Bracing for Impact of Medicaid Cuts in Communities ‘Already at Risk’
Rhode Island
Ocean State Media: How Federal Medicaid Cuts Could Impact Rhode Island Residents and the State’s Health Care System
Texas
KETR: Federal Cuts and Texas Policy Choices Offer the Clearest Explanation for Hunt County’s ER Closures
Texas Public Radio: With Pending Cuts, Texas Rural Hospitals Struggle to Stay Open
Vermont
VT Digger: Rutland Regional Medical Center Shutters Pediatric Inpatient Care
Virginia
WVTF: Virginia’s Oldest Free Clinic Needs to Sell Its Building in Wake of Federal Budget Cuts
Washington
Bellingham Herald: Layoffs Hit Bellingham Caregivers as Peacehealth Announces 2.5% Workforce Reduction
GoSkagit: ‘This Is Major’: Medicaid Cuts Would Impact Skagit County Hospitals, Residents
Washington D.C.
Wall Street Journal: Looming Medicaid, ACA Cuts Stand to Bring a D.C. Hospital to Its Knees