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The future of rural hospitals in Louisiana is being questioned in the wake of Medicaid cuts passed by the GOP.

Now that the cuts have been approved, here are some ways people in Louisiana could be impacted.

Blue Cross Louisiana OK’d mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay a hospital’s full bills. For some claims, it paid nothing.

The nurses union has been negotiating its first contract with LCMC Health for several months.

As a field hospital closes up shop in Mississippi this weekend, the state, along with Louisiana and Alabama, still has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country as the pandemic looks to be far from over.

Alarms are good and necessary things in hospital care — except when there are so many that caregivers miss signals of a patient in crisis. Trying to conquer "alarm fatigue," one hospital turned off the beeps — and found that patient care actually improved.