Steward Health Care

Even with hospital sales approved for bankrupt Steward Health Care, state health officials say they are still bracing for a rocky path ahead and working to stay engaged with the communities that lost facilities. Beyond the closure of Carney Hospital and Nashoba Valley Medical Center, the Healey administration is still entrenched in the eminent domain process to seize St....

Steward Health Care CEO Ralph de la Torre says he’s not testifying before a Senate committee because it would be “wholly inappropriate” to testify before his company’s bankruptcy proceedings are resolved.

Bankrupt Steward Health Care is back in the spotlight Thursday morning after CEO Ralph de la Torre said he won’t testify before a Senate committee in Washington. The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee is demanding answers behind the hospital system’s collapse. “Ralph de la Torre’s excuses are as empty as his chair was at my April 3...

Steward Health Care is once again in a controversial spotlight after the company’s CEO said he’s not testifying before the Senate about the healthcare system’s bankruptcy.

“The sudden absence of ER level 4 and level 5 services means that people will die,” said the CEO of nearby Codman Square Health Center, which is already seeing a surge in new patients.

A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge approved the sale of six Steward Health Care hospitals here Wednesday, though he left some of the exact details of the deals to be resolved before the end of the month.

As Steward Health Care prepares to make the case in federal court Wednesday that the deals it reached to sell four Massachusetts hospital facilities should be quickly approved, a number of others would like to have a word — including key lenders for the bankrupt company, the Archdiocese of Boston and the IRS.

The Carney Hospital in Dorchester and Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer closed their doors Saturday morning at 7 a.m.

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Two Steward Health Care facilities are closing on Saturday, the Carney Hospital in Dorchester and Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer.

Two Steward Health Care facilities are closing on Saturday, the Carney Hospital in Dorchester and Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer.

The Carney Hospital in Dorchester and Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer are closing despite months of pressure from politicians who say its executives are putting profits over people.

Gov. Maura Healey says Steward Health Care has reached deals that will save St. Elizabeth’s and Good Samaritan.

The Healey administration reported progress in the takeover process for six hospital campuses owned by bankrupt Steward Health Care Friday evening, the eve of the closure of two other Steward facilities in Massachusetts.

“We’re going to have chaos,” Ayer Select Board Member Jannice Livingston said on the eve of the closure of Nashoba Valley Medical Center. It’s due to close its doors Saturday, along with fellow Steward Health Care facility Carney Hospital in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood — they couldn’t be saved amid the bankruptcy crisis at Steward.

Friday is the final day of operations at Carney Hospital in Boston and Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer. The two Steward-owned facilities are set to close as the company goes through bankruptcy proceedings. 

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After weeks of negotiations, the sale of four Steward Health Care hospitals has been finalized, while the sale of two other facilities still remained in the works. 

Steward Health Care has signed “definitive agreements” to sell four of the six Massachusetts hospitals it has been working to offload since filing for bankruptcy in May. The company announced Thursday that it has finalized asset purchase agreements for Lifespan to buy Morton Hospital in Taunton and Saint Anne’s Hospital in Fall River, and for Lawrence General Hospital to...

A health care management consultant asked in a supplemental report filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court that Massachusetts’ government, Steward Health Care and its creditors keep Nashoba Valley’s emergency department open for an additional 30 days, or at least provide funding so an ambulance could be stationed outside the closed emergency room for at least a week after closure.

Steward Health Care said in a U.S. Bankruptcy Court filing that a sale hearing scheduled this week on five of its Massachusetts hospitals has been unilaterally “adjourned.”

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