National Day of Action – SWPA

Join the Southwest PA Healthcare Rights Committee of Put People First! PA, the National Union of the Homeless, the PA Poor People’s Campaign and other partners as we join the National Day of Action for Medicaid with the Nonviolent Medicaid Army.

Click here for the facebook event.

Date: Saturday, September 6th at 1 pm Location: Heritage Valley Kennedy 25 Heckel Rd, McKees Rocks, PA 15136-1651, United States Register for the action here: https://bit.ly/NVMA2025ActionRegistration

Heritage Valley Kennedy closed permanently on July 1.

It was 130 years between the founding of the hospital and its acquisition by the Heritage Valley Health System. Less than six years after being bought, the hospital is now closed.

Hospital closures are an epidemic in Pennsylvania and across the country. Seventy-eight hospitals have fully or partially closed over the past 25 years in our state, one third of those in rural counties.

We take action on September 6th to say: Keep our Hospitals Open. The ongoing and deepening attacks on Medicaid will force more hospitals to close. There is growing agreement in both parties that poor people no longer need or deserve hospitals. We reject this!!