States Eye Aid To Prop Up Distressed Hospitals Amid Federal Medicaid Cuts

By: Bernard J. Wolfson

Outlets: KFF Health News

Published: May 7, 2026

Words: 1,241

Last Updated: 1 month ago

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LOS ANGELES — At Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital, patients on gurneys line the hallways of the emergency department waiting for care, and overflow mental health patients are consigned to outdoor tents.

The 152-bed hospital, which sits on a sprawling medical campus close to the predominantly Latino and Black neighborhood of Watts, is struggling for financial stability. Its patients are poorer and sicker than average, many of them are uninsured, and three-quarters of MLK’s …

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