Rural Health Transformation Program is woefully inadequate to save West Virginia hospitals

Rural Health Transformation Program is woefully inadequate to save West Virginia hospitals

West Virginia has 10 hospitals and three nursing homes that are either at high risk for closure or vulnerable to closure because of federal cuts to Medicaid. (FS Productions | Getty Images)As I visit communities around my beloved West Virginia to talk about the impacts and consequences of Capito Care, or HR 1, perhaps the most sweeping and arguably the worst piece of health care legislation to ever come out of our nation’s capital, it is the imp…