Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez
@jazmin1orozco.bsky.social
@kffhealthnews.bsky.social correspondent covering rural health, based in Nevada. Tips/questions: jazmino@kff.org.
NEW: The proposed cuts to Medicaid raise the stakes for rural hospitals nationwide, with many of them already operating on razor-thin, if not negative, margins.
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‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Would Batter Rural Hospital Finances, Researchers Say - KFF Health News
Rural hospitals would take an outsize hit from Republicans’ proposed cuts to Medicaid and other federal health programs. Researchers say the financial erosion would trigger hospital closures and servi...
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June 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
NEW: The proposed cuts to Medicaid raise the stakes for rural hospitals nationwide, with many of them already operating on razor-thin, if not negative, margins.
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Reposted by Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez
As the Trump administration begins carrying out the “largest deportation operation” in the nation’s history, states have offered starkly different guidelines to hospitals, community clinics, and other health facilities for immigrant patients. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
As States Diverge on Immigration, Hospitals Say They Won’t Turn Patients Away - KFF Health News
California and Massachusetts are teaching immigrants their rights while Florida and Texas are collecting patients’ immigration status. As states offer differing guidelines for interacting with immigra...
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January 23, 2025 at 7:28 PM
As the Trump administration begins carrying out the “largest deportation operation” in the nation’s history, states have offered starkly different guidelines to hospitals, community clinics, and other health facilities for immigrant patients. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Reposted by Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez
congratulations to the 2025 @womenjournos.bsky.social health fellows! Nik Altenberg, Taylor Blatchford, Emily Brindley, Julia Métraux, Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez, Kena Shah, Natalie Skowlund, Shernay Williams, #journalism #womenjournos #healthjournalism more info on their reporting projects to come!
January 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
congratulations to the 2025 @womenjournos.bsky.social health fellows! Nik Altenberg, Taylor Blatchford, Emily Brindley, Julia Métraux, Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez, Kena Shah, Natalie Skowlund, Shernay Williams, #journalism #womenjournos #healthjournalism more info on their reporting projects to come!