Othello Community Hospital will see some impacts from cuts to the federal Medicaid program, but it’s too soon to know what they are. A list of hospitals at risk for closing due to Medicaid cuts included OCH, but hospital officials said that was incorrect.
July 10, 2025
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MOSES LAKE — The recent approval of new federal Medicaid rules will affect local hospitals and medical providers. What that impact will be, however, is still unclear. “So much is still unknown,” Glenda Bishop, chief executive officer for Quincy Valley Medical Center, wrote in reply to an email from the Columbia Basin Herald. “We simply do not have enough data to predict with accuracy any outcomes.”