As the GOP slashes health care funding with reckless abandon, hospitals across the country are being forced to turn off the lights and shut their doors. Communities are now watching their hospitals and critical providers shut down in real time. Recent coverage highlights the toll of the GOP health care betrayal on real people: Americans with impaired vision, like Diana from Missouri, rely on at-risk safety-net hospitals for essential, everyday needs like transportation to medical appointments. Rural parents with disabled children, like Megan from Wisconsin, are scrambling to stockpile syringes because, with the looming GOP Medicaid cuts, their local hospitals are at risk of shuttering, and the next nearest providers are an hour-long drive away. Caregivers helping loved ones with chronic illnesses, like Marsha from New Hampshire, are petrified about what losing doctors and relations built over decades means for her husband, who is battling cancer.
Four months after the passage of the Big, Ugly Bill, nearly 600 providers are closing or at risk of shuttering and Americans are taking notice. They are fed up with Trump and the GOP making the largest health care cuts in U.S. history to carve out more tax breaks for billionaires. Protect Our Care’s Hospital Crisis Watch will continue reminding the American people who is causing their pain and suffering.
New York Times: When the G.O.P. Medicaid Cuts Arrive, These Hospitals Will Be Hit Hardest
AP News: What To Know About The Impacts Medicaid Cuts Are Having On Rural Health Care
Harvard University: Medicaid Cuts Likely to Affect Urban Safety-Net Hospitals | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Commonwealth Fund: Without Renewal of Enhanced Premium Tax Credits, Rural Hospital Revenues Will Drop By $1.6 Billion
Medscape: Physicians, Hospitals Grapple With Looming Medicaid Cuts
Fierce Healthcare: Many Urban Safety-Net Hospitals Threatened by OBBBA’s Medicaid Cuts: Analysis
Healthcare Dive: More Rural Hospitals Shutter Labor and Delivery Units in 2025: Report
San Francisco Chronicle: What to Know About the Impacts Medicaid Cuts Are Having on Rural Health Care
The Guardian: Hospitals and Clinics Are Shutting Down Due to Trump’s Healthcare Cuts. Here’s Where
Forward Kentucky: Without Medicaid, Many Rural Americans Will Die
Alabama
WSFA: Greenville Hospital Seeks to End Inpatient Services, Layoff 90 Employees
California
The Press Democrat: ‘A Threat to Latino Health’: Sonoma County Clinics Brace for Fallout From Medi-Cal Cuts
Santa Cruz Local: Watsonville Hospital Races to Find Solution as Financial Woes Deepen
The Press Democrat: Providence Pushes Back, Says Santa Rosa Pediatric Ward Closure Followed ‘Open’ Review — Doctors Dispute That
VC Star: Santa Paula’s Hilltop Hospital Put On Life Support; Care Needs Studied
Georgia
WRDW: Ossoff Probes Possible Plans to Cut Services at Fort Gordon Hospital
Illinois
Chicago Tribune: State Board Approves Closure Of Ascension Alexian Brothers’ Labor And Delivery Unit
Kansas
KWCH: Struggling Pratt Hospital Asks County for Help
Kentucky
Lexington Herald Leader: Facing Trump’s Medicaid Cuts, KY Hospitals to Scale Back Services. Here’s What Could Go
Maine
90.5 WESA: Clinics That Provide Abortion in Maine Face an Onslaught
Massachusetts
New From The States: Suspension of Maternity Services at Mercy Medical Center Sparks Fears of Permanent Closure
Minnesota
MPR News: Minnesota Applies for $1B in Rural Health Care Funds, But It Won’t Offset Massive Medicaid Cuts
Montana
KBZK Bozeman MT News: Bozeman Addiction Treatment Clinic Serving 1,000 Clients to Close in December
New Hampshire
WKMG: For People in This New England Mountain Town, a Health Center’s Closure Leaves Unanswered Questions
New Jersey
ROI-NJ: Heights University Hospital in Jersey City Is Closing After Failing to Get Funding
Patch: New Owner of Hospital in New Jersey City Says It Will Close
New York
NY1: Brooklyn Hospital Center Considering Filing for Bankruptcy
Yahoo News: Jersey City Hospital Closure Leaves Community in Shock: ‘No Answers’
North Carolina
WUNC: ‘We Are At the Breaking Point.’ Providers Call for Roll Back to Medicaid Rate Cut
Oklahoma
KFOR: Griffin Memorial Hospital Services Moving to SW OKC
KECO: Clinton Regional Hospital Secures State Approval for Rural Emergency Transition
Pennsylvania
WHYY: Pottstown Hospital Nurses ‘Devastated’ and ‘Grieving’ Over 131 Layoffs, Closure of Cancer Center and ICU
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: UPMC to Close Methadone Treatment Clinic in Wilkinsburg
KYW: Pottstown Hospital Layoffs Raise Fear of ‘Health Care Desert’ Among Local Politicians
Washington
KING5: Providence Swedish to Cut 296 Positions, Citing Financial Challenges
KXLY: Rural Hospital Closure Threatens East Adams County
Becker’s Hospital Review: Washington Hospital at Risk of Closure
Wisconsin
The Wisconsin Independent: Wisconsin Mom of Daughter With Disabilities Fears Impact of Expected Medicaid Cuts