| Brad Finstad cast the deciding vote for the largest cut to Medicaid in history – and now, two Mayo Clinic campuses in Southern Minnesota are at risk of cutting services or shutting down entirely.
The Mayo Clinic Health System – which has branches in both Albert Lea and Austin – is among the seven Minnesota hospitals identified as at-risk due to Finstad’s extreme health care cuts.
The Rochester Post-Bulletin notes that the Mayo Clinic’s Albert Lea campus has already “eliminated some outpatient services” as of late last year, just months after Finstad’s reckless vote.
DCCC Spokesperson Katie Smith:
“Minnesota hospitals are already feeling the hit and cutting back on essential services because Brad Finstad voted to defund rural health care – all to pay for massive tax breaks to billionaires.”
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Rochester Post Bulletin: Analysis: Mayo Clinic Health System hospital among those considered at-risk for closing, reducing services
- A Mayo Clinic Health System hospital in southern Minnesota is among 446 U.S. hospitals at heightened risk of reducing services or closing, according to an analysis by progressive think tank Public Citizen.
- The report identifies seven at-risk hospitals in Minnesota. Among those are… [the] Mayo Clinic Health System in Albert Lea and Austin. The MCHS facilities in Austin and Albert Lea are considered two campuses of the same hospital, Mayo Clinic Health System Southeast.
- In late 2025, Mayo Clinic Health System eliminated some outpatient services at its Albert Lea hospital campus. Since the Austin and Albert Lea hospital campuses’ merger in 2013, the health system has consolidated several services, including intensive care and labor and delivery, that are now offered at just the Austin location.
- Public Citizen’s March 31 report categorized hospitals as at-risk if Medicaid and other low-income government programs make up more than 20% of their payer mix, and if they had a negative average profit margin from 2022 to 2024.
- Earlier this month, the Minnesota Hospital Association told the Post Bulletin that at least 31 nonprofit hospitals in Minnesota are “financially distressed,” said MHA president and CEO Dr. Rahul Koranne.
- Last year, the health system closed six clinics and two Express Care locations in rural Minnesota.
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