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Washington Post
02-07-2025
- Health
- Washington Post
How an empty North Carolina rural hospital explains a GOP senator's vote against Trump's tax bill
WASHINGTON — Though patients don't rush through the doors of this emergency room anymore, an empty hospital in Williamston, North Carolina, offers an evocative illustration of why Republican Sen. Thom Tillis would buck his party leaders to vote down President Donald Trump's signature domestic policy package. Martin General is one of a dozen hospitals that have closed in North Carolina over the last two decades. This is a problem that hospital systems and health experts warn may only worsen if the legislation passes with its $1 trillion cuts to the Medicaid program and new restrictions on enrollment in the coverage.


CTV News
26-05-2025
- Health
- CTV News
CTV National News: Healthcare crisis continues as B.C. hospital closes pediatric unit
Watch Families are struggling after a Kelowna hospital has been forced to close its pediatric unit due to a lack of doctors. CTV News' Andrew Johnson reports.


CTV News
23-05-2025
- Health
- CTV News
B.C. hospital closing pediatric unit for 6 weeks
A major hospital in B.C.'s Interior is shutting down its general pediatrics unit for 'at least six weeks' die to a doctor shortage.