Mariposa County's only hospital could shut down under Big Beautiful Bill, officials say

MARIPOSA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The past remaining upland country infirmary is successful information of shutting down successful Mariposa.

In a June 12 letter addressed to the White House, members of the Senate expressed their concerns surrounding the hazard the Big Beautiful Bill would enactment connected agrarian hospitals. Now that the measure has passed, the worries are 1 measurement person to reality.

"Rural hospitals are uniquely astatine hazard of fiscal distress and adjacent closure, conversion, oregon work reductions due to the fact that of the cuts successful the House-passed reconciliation package," the missive work successful part.

The precocious passed measure slashes astir $1 trillion from Medicaid implicit the adjacent decade. These cuts construe to less reimbursements for hospitals that trust connected this funding.

According to an investigation by the Cecil G. Sheps Center astatine the University of North Carolina astatine Chapel Hill, the hospitals astatine hazard conscionable 1 of 2 fiscal criteria:

1. The infirmary is successful the apical 10% Medicaid payer premix of agrarian hospitals crossed the country
2. The infirmary has experienced 3 consecutive years of antagonistic full margin.

Among the hospitals nether menace - John C. Fremont, the lone infirmary successful Mariposa County and the past remaining upland country hospital. The adjacent nearest infirmary is successful Merced County, astir an hr away.

If the infirmary is lost, senators accidental surrounding communities volition not lone beryllium forced to grapple with losing entree to healthcare but besides with occupation nonaccomplishment and the resulting fiscal insecurity.

Under the bill, 338 hospitals are astatine hazard of closure, including Memorial Hospital successful Los Banos, Regional Medical Center successful Coalinga, and Adventist Health successful Reedley.