Rural hospital in danger of exclusion immediately

Rural hospitals throughout the country – and the country – are in difficulty, urgent. Labor and deliveries are becoming more expensive. Medicaid federal cuts are envisaged to reduce their revenue.

And places like Inio County, on the east side of Sierra Nevada, are facing the prospect of closing key medical establishments.

Southern Inyo Healthcare District, one of the two hospitals in the county, had eight days of cash from September 12, CEO of the hospital told our Kristen HangingS Hospitals usually have more than 200 days of cash.

Local officials have sent a letter requesting an emergency $ 3 million from the Gavin News government to stabilize the facility.

• The letter says: “If the doors are closed, thousands of adults and rural Californians will be left without access to critical health, creating a true medical desert in another region of the state.”

Here is Kristen:

Located in Lone Pine, a city on the base of the Peak of Whitney with only 1,300 inhabitants, the southern Inery health neighborhood is the only hospital within a radius of nearly 60 miles. This is the closest stop for wounded tourists and dehydrated tourists visiting Whitney or a nearby death valley, which regularly receives over 1 million visitors a year. Without it, there would be a 136-kilometer section between the next nearest hospitals in East Sierra Nevada.

The only hospital in Glenn County in Northern California said three weeks ago that it would close until October.

This week, the aggressive immigration raids of the federal government came to Chicago.

The man behind them, the leader of the border patrol Gregory Bovino is also The architect of raids in California this year.

Our reporters Sergio Olmos and Wendy Fry are on the ground, covering Bovino and his agents from the first day of their surprise January attack in Kern County.

You can get involved from their reporting through these two videos:

The Trump administration eliminates billions of dollars for university grants.

If universities want to try to return their research funds, the Supreme Court says they have to go to a vague court to do so. Our higher education reporter, Mikhail Zinshteyn, Look at this courtS

He writes that the modern court of federal claims existing from before the Civil War was created by the Tucker Act and is a place for dispute over a contract with the federal government. For example: a company hired to build a bridge would Uncle Sam if he had not received a paid.

• David MarcusUcla’s professor: “I had never spent more than three minutes in class, even mentioning the existence of the Tucker law and I would never have occurred to me to do it before this spring.”