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Bradford Regional Medical Center stops being a hospital on May 17th. No more emergency room. No more inpatient care. No more ICU. The nearest hospital with a full ER becomes a 30-minute drive -- if you can make it there. Kaleida Health, BRMC's parent company says financial pressures forced the transition to outpatient-only services. And those financial pressures have a name. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act slashed $911 billion from Medicaid over ten years Pennsylvania alone faces an estimated $20 billion in state Medicaid cuts. When rural hospitals lose reimbursement for uninsured and underinsured patients, they bleed cash until they close