Join the Northeast 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.
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Date: Saturday, September 6th at 1 pm
Location: 751 E 16th St. Berwick, PA 18603
Berwick Hospital Center closed permanently nearly three years ago.
We have not forgotten how this century-old community hospital was gutted and abruptly closed by healthcare profiteers.
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 a system abandons our community hospitals while giving millions in tax breaks to Amazon in order build labor-replacing, environmentally devastating technology in our backyards.