REPORT: 10 Virginia Hospitals at Risk After Wittman, Kiggans, and McGuire Gut Medicaid

Wittman, Kiggans, and McGuire have unleashed a health care crisis on Virginia. 166,000 hardworking Virginians are expected to be kicked off Medicaid, and health care premiums have skyrocketed while families are also being priced out of their health insurance.

Hospitals and health clinics are already feeling the impacts: Three Virginia health clinics were forced to shut their doors, and Centra Southside Community Hospital already closed its labor and delivery unit due to “significant financial and operational challenges, including recently enacted reductions in federal health care funding.”

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Virginian-Pilot: 10 Virginia hospitals are threatened by Medicaid cuts, report says

• Ten Virginia hospitals, mostly in rural corners of the state, are at a heightened risk of closing or reducing services because of Medicaid cuts, a report concluded.
• Among them are two hospitals owned by VCU Health and one by Bon Secours. President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, passed last summer, is expected to push 166,000 Virginia residents off Medicaid, which is often a key source of revenue for small, rural hospitals.
• The One Big Beautiful Bill is expected to cut $911 billion in federal spending on Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program over the next 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Locally, a Democratic-led committee estimated that 166,000 Virginians would be pushed off Medicaid, and another 137,000 would lose insurance coverage under the Virginia Health Benefits Exchange.
• The report included the two hospitals owned by VCU Health, Community Memorial Hospital and Tappahannock Hospital, and one owned by Bon Secours, Southern Virginia Medical Center in the city of Emporia, not far from the North Carolina border.
• Also on the list in Virginia were Buchanan General Hospital, Carilion Tazewell Community Hospital, Dickenson Community Hospital in Clintwood, Sentara Halifax Regional Hospital, Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center in Woodbridge, Southside Community Hospital in Farmville and Twin County Regional Hospital in Galax.
• In December, Centra Southside Community Hospital in Farmville closed its labor and delivery unit, and it discontinued OB/GYN surgical services at the hospital and at an outpatient clinic. The hospital cited having fewer patients and a need to adapt to “significant financial and operational challenges, including recently enacted reductions in federal health care funding.”