Donald Trump's executive orders have started to disrupt patient care across the United States, leading to the closure of healthcare facilities and the layoff of staff due to funding difficulties.
Donald Trump's executive orders have started to disrupt patient care across the United States. Interviews with a dozen healthcare providers and policy advocates reveal that some providers are facing difficulties accessing essential federal funding. Facilities in Virginia and West Virginia have been forced to close primary care clinics or lay off staff due to this funding disruption.
Other community health clinics in California and Virginia have received termination notices for federal grants that support HIV prevention care. Some of these funding cuts appear linked to Trump administration orders that mandate the federal government to eliminate diversity, gender, and inclusion programs and recognize only two sexes: male and female. Other funding disruptions appear to be connected to a freeze on federal funding that was rescinded last week. A Reuters analysis revealed that tens of billions of dollars in congressionally approved spending for programs across various industries, including clean energy, remain frozen under various Trump administration orders. David C. Harvey, the executive director of the National Coalition of STD Directors, an organization representing providers of sexually transmitted disease prevention programs and services, stated, “There is mass confusion. We expect that interruption will grow if there is not clarity from federal agencies in the coming hours and days. This is money that pays for staff payroll, rent and healthcare supplies.” Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Three community health centers near Richmond, Virginia, were forced to shut down after federal funds used to pay staff salaries remained inaccessible since last week, according to Joe Stevens, spokesperson for the Virginia Community Healthcare Association. As of Friday, another nine centers across Virginia also could not access federal funds but continued to see patients by tapping into reserve funds. “They will need money in the next week. We don’t know why some centers can access funds and some cannot,” said Stevens.In Virginia, community health centers provide medical, dental, behavioral health, pharmaceutical and substance use services for approximately 400,000 patients. For many of the state's rural areas, these centers are the only option for primary care, according to Stevens. One center that was still unable to access federal funds is located in southwestern Virginia, where the next closest option for medical care is more than an hour’s drive away, he said. Most providers were able to access Medicaid and grant monies once the spending freeze was rescinded. However, some say they are still cut off from payments used for essential care, including medical, dental, prescription drugs, and behavioral health. “It is literally changing moment to moment,” said Alison Barkoff, an expert on disability rights and health law and policy professor at George Washington University.The Appalachian Center for Independent Living, based in Charleston, West Virginia, was cut off for more than a week. This delay forced the disability services and support organization to lay off three out of five staff members. The center offered to rehire the employees after its access to federal funding resumed. However, two of the three chose not to return, in part because of the financial uncertainty, the center's executive director Meredith Pride told Reuters. “We don’t have any other choice but to push through and do what we need to do to keep the center running,” said Pride.Late last week, some healthcare centers that provide HIV prevention services and care for transgender patients received notices that grants issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would be terminated. The letters cited the Trump administration's orders on diversity and gender identity, according to three recipients of the notices. A spokesperson for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention referred questions about the grants to the Department of Health and Human Services. St. John's Well Child and Family Center, a network of public health centers in South and Central Los Angeles, cannot access $746,000 remaining from a $1.6 million grant used to provide prevention, testing and treatment for about 500 transgender people at risk of HIV, sexually transmitted infections, tuberculosis and hepatitis C. “We have made a decision not to cut back any programs because of any threats from the federal government,” said St. John’s President Jim Mangia. St. John’s has joined a lawsuit filed by California’s attorney general contesting the funding cuts. Mangia says he will seek private funding to make up the loss. The LGBT Life Center in Norfolk, Virginia, received a letter stating $6.3 million of the organization’s funding, or 48% of its annual budget, would be terminated, said spokesperson Corey Mohr. The center provides medication and monitoring to 400 patients with HIV.
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