Ten Virginia hospitals, mostly in rural corners of the state, are at a heightened risk of closing or reducing services because of Medicaid cuts.
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.
But Dr. Marlon Levy, CEO of VCU Health, emphasized the health system will not shutter its two rural locations — Community Memorial Hospital in Mecklenburg County, near North Carolina, and Tappahannock Hospital, which is 45 miles northeast of Richmond.
“You can put it in bold, all caps, underlined: Those hospitals are not closing,” Levy said.
Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
