States Eye Aid To Prop Up Distressed Hospitals Amid Federal Medicaid Cuts

States Eye Aid To Prop Up Distressed Hospitals Amid Federal Medicaid Cuts

LOS ANGELES — At Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital, patients on gurneys line the hallways of the emergency department waiting for care, and overflow mental health patients are consigned to outdoor tents. The 152-bed hospital, which sits on a sprawling medical campus close to the predominantly Latino and Black neighborhood of Watts, is struggling for financial stability. Its patients are poorer and sicker than average, many of them are u…

States Eye Aid To Prop Up Distressed Hospitals Amid Federal Medicaid Cuts - Health Care Today

LOS ANGELES — At Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital, patients on gurneys line the hallways of the emergency department waiting for care, and overflow mental health patients are consigned to outdoor tents. The 152-bed hospital, which sits on a sprawling medical campus close to the predominantly Latino and Black neighborhood of Watts, is struggling for financial stability. Its patients are poorer and sicker than average, many of them are …

States Eye Aid To Prop Up Distressed Hospitals Amid Federal Medicaid Cuts – Pagosa Daily Post News Events & Video for Pagosa Springs Colorado

"Even if we cut services that our community needs — maternity care, behavioral healthcare, diabetes management — it wouldn’t make a significant dent in the gap we’re facing..."