{
  "id": 16882317,
  "title": "Hospital Beds for the Nation’s Sickest Kids Are Disappearing",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/hospital-beds-for-the-nations-sickest-kids-are-disappearing",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-28T09:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "KFF Health News",
    "slug": "kff-health-news",
    "url": "https://kffhealthnews.org/health-industry/picu-hospital-beds-disappearing-sick-children-intensive-care-montana/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Hospitals nationwide are cutting intensive services for kids in critical care. Many cite too few patients, staffing shortages, and money problems. As a result, kids who need lifesaving care must travel farther. Pediatricians expect more cutbacks in the wake of federal Medicaid cuts.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}