A key rural hospital in La Junta is laying people off with deep federal Medicaid cuts looming

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Marely Chavarría Santos was born with heart failure. The tip of her liver protruded through a hole in her abdomen. Part of her intestine was so narrow that nutrients couldn't pass through. Her heart was so diseased that it eventually swelled to the size of a large lemon, pressing on her lungs and other organs. Her mother, Kassandra Santos, 26, remembers how Marely struggled to breathe, sometimes losing color completely. When Marely was about 3 m…