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Elaine Batchlor, CEO of Los Angeles' MLK Community Healthcare, hopes for a loan to help ease a cash crunch.
Elaine Batchlor, the CEO of Los Angeles’ MLK Community Healthcare and a trained rheumatologist, in one of the patient treatment areas in Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital’s emergency department. | BERNARD WOLFSON | KFF HEALTH NEWS

States eye aid to prop up distressed hospitals amid federal Medicaid cuts

The Republican One Big Beautiful Bill Act is expected to cut federal Medicaid spending by $911 billion over 10 years, and add more than 14 million people to the rolls of the uninsured, many of whom will go to already crowded emergency rooms to get care they can’t pay for
May 5
OHSU Doernbecher Children's Hospital has a level 1 pediatric trauma center. | OHSU/CHRISTINE TORRES HICKS

OHSU financial strategy undermines ED care, nurses say

The two-year-old turnaround strategy for Oregon Health & Science University has helped boost the teaching hospital into the black. Some providers, however, contend the focus on accommodating certain types of patients is fueling disparities in care.
Apr 30
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Small Doses: House Majority Leader Bowman jumps into ApolloMD case

Also, state health officials are walking back rules on residential treatment facility admissions after reports of ‘urgent safety concerns,' and as the feds delay banning a common toxic chemical, the state takes action.
Apr 30
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Testimony continues in the PeaceHealth trial in U.S. District Court in Eugene.
April 29, 2026, was the third day of testimony in U.S. District Court over PeaceHealth’s plans to transition emergency staffing from Eugene Emergency Physicians to a group created by Georgia-based ApolloMD. | TIFFANY ECKERT | KLCC

‘Defies logic’: U.S. District judge fumes over testimony on day three of PeaceHealth trial in Eugene

Dr. Johne Philip Chapman is the sole owner and member of Lane Emergency Physicians, which is expected to take over emergency departments in Cottage Grove, Florence and Springfield in the coming months. He doesn't plan on moving to Oregon.
Apr 30
His farm was losing money, and Chris Pawelski considered taking his life.
Chris Pawelski hit his breaking point in 2020. He was working constantly, but his family’s farm in New York’s Orange County was bleeding money and debts were accruing. He started thinking about suicide. | JEFFREY BASINGER FOR KFF HEALTH NEWS

Saving lives by changing lives: The next frontier in suicide prevention

Researchers and advocates say it's more important to give depressed people a reason to live, rather than trying simply to stop them from taking their lives
Apr 30

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