Three years since the COVID pandemic ended, Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in Willowbrook is still receiving and treating patients in tents outside, where ambulances used to park.
Their emergency room is one of the busiest in the country even though they’re a small community hospital, because they serve an area with few other clinics and hospitals.
About 80% of their patients are covered by Medicaid. And now, staggering cuts to Medicaid, part of the “Big Beautiful Bill,” which will begin at the end of this year – $1 trillion over 10 years would leave the hospital with a 20% gap in revenue…