The Trump administration's efforts to strip protections from more than half a million legal immigrants could devastate the health sector, endangering care for the elderly and worsening rates of both chronic and infectious diseases.
After 165 years of care, UC Health is closing its post-acute care facility, the Daniel Drake Center. The healthcare group said it is instead planning to "invest in access to high-demand services and community needs." The Drake Center will close by September 30, 2025, and patients currently receiving care will either complete their treatment on-site or be transitioned to other UC Health locations. "The facility's age and services contributed to sustained financial challenges," UC Health wrote in a press release announcing its closure. UC Health did not provide a number of employees who might be affected by the closure.
New leadership appointed by President Trump now runs the CFPB. And the agency hasn't just reversed its position on the consumer protection rule — last month, it joined forces with the plaintiffs who filed the suit trying to block it.
The Departments of Labor, HHS, and the Treasury on Thursday released several new guidance documents and requests for information on price transparency, following the February executive order on the same subject. As part of this package, CMS released new guidance on calculating the estimated allowed amount values in the hospital machine-readable files.
The timeline for closing the Hiram W. Davis Medical Center by 2027 in Dinwiddie County has been made public, and its plans call for eventual moves of patients to either public or private facilities and an employee-relocation process the state hopes will limit layoffs. A final process for shuttering the 50-year-old 150-bed facility on the campus of Central State Hospital still must be approved by the General Assembly and governor next winter.
Democratic lawmakers have narrowed the scope of a proposed crackdown on hospital M&As, focusing it on private equity and excluding nonprofit operators from additional oversight after pushback from the industry's powerful lobby.