Steward Health Care

The Boston City Council is scheduled to take up a resolution Wednesday seeking an emergency declaration tied to Steward Health Care‘s plan to shutter Carney Hospital at the end of the month. The resolution, sponsored by Councilors John FitzGerald and Ed Flynn, urges the city and the Boston Public Health Commission to declare a public health emergency and to “take...

Some major state aid is reportedly on the way for the troubled Steward Health Care. This comes after a massive bankruptcy filing, and the upcoming closures of two hospitals.

The state of Massachusetts plans to provide $30 million to support Steward Health Care hospitals that are transitioning to new owners, according to court documents. That money would go toward supporting the six hospitals that are transitioning from Steward to new owners, as well as keeping Carney Hospital in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood and Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer operating…

A Senate committee has announced plans to investigate Steward Health Care. The committee also voted to subpoena the CEO of the bankrupt company.

Embattled medical system Steward Health Care announced Friday it plans to close two of its eight hospitals in Massachusetts within several weeks. Carney Hospital in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood and Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer will close around the end of August, according to an announcement from Steward, calling it a “challenging and unfortunate situation.” Steward, which owns 31 hospitals…

A Senate committee has voted to authorize an investigation into the bankruptcy of Steward Health Care and to subpoena the company’s CEO.

Several Steward Health Care hospitals could hit the auction block. The company is hoping to sell its assets in Massachusetts after filing for bankruptcy. It’s a sale that many people have been keeping an eye on.

Massachusetts Public Health Commissioner Robbie Goldstein said Wednesday that officials are in the dark for now on how the critical bidding process worked out for Steward Health Care‘s hospitals in Massachusetts. Bids were due Monday as part of Steward’s complex bankruptcy proceedings. Goldstein told the Public Health Council on Wednesday morning that he had no information on the bids...

The sale of Steward Health Care‘s physician network to for-profit insurer Optum is off, state officials confirmed Friday, underscoring the uncertainty swirling around the bankrupt hospital system and the future of its hospitals and providers in Massachusetts. Optum informed the Health Policy Commission that it is no longer working to finalize an agreement with Steward around the sale of...

Steward Health Care was back in bankruptcy court on Monday, continuing the process of selling its 31 hospitals to pay back its debtors. “It’s so frustrating that they can come in and pull all the money and resources out of this town, I don’t get it,” said Nashoba Valley Medical Center nurse Audra Sprague. Eight of those hospitals are...

State officials continue to encourage people to seek care at Steward Health Care’s eight Massachusetts hospitals despite the company’s bankruptcy, but a doctor from a neighboring hospital said the message doesn’t tell the whole story. Since Steward filed for bankruptcy in Texas last week, Gov. Maura Healey and others have sought to make clear that the legal proceeding does...

A judge ruled Tuesday that the bankrupt Steward Health Care system can meet Wednesday’s payroll for its roughly 9,750 employees in Massachusetts and more than 20,000 others around the country, an early ruling in a court proceeding in which Massachusetts is among hundreds of interested parties. The operator of the third-largest hospital system in Massachusetts, Steward filed for Chapter 11…

Steward Health Care says it plans to sell off all its hospitals after announcing this week that it filed for bankruptcy protection. The Dallas-based company said it does not expect interruptions in its hospitals’ day-to-day operations. The company says those will continue in the ordinary course throughout the Chapter 11 process. The company says in court filings Tuesday that Steward...

State officials have launched an incident command system as they brace for potential health care service disruptions in eastern Massachusetts, escalating their efforts to protect patient safety and access amid the financial turmoil at Steward Health Care. The system, activated through an emergency operations plan, will enable better coordination across state agencies, hospitals, community health centers, community service organizations, labor...

After 34 years as a nurse at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Brighton, Susan Church is worried about losing the job she loves and the community she cares for, as uncertainty swirls around Steward Health Care’s eight operating Massachusetts hospitals. “A lot of us have been here for 30 or 40 years. We all stayed because we do the best job…

Elected officials are voicing skepticism about a planned deal to sell Steward Health Care’s physician network to for-profit insurer Optum, questioning whether it might do more harm than good as Massachusetts grapples with fallout from Steward’s financial upheaval. A day after regulators announced they would review a potential sale of Stewardship Health to Optum Care, House Speaker Ron Mariano...

In a disclosure that hinted that further transactions, state health care officials received notifications Tuesday in connection with the proposed sale of Stewardship Health Inc. and the contracting Steward Health Care Network to OptumCare, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group. The office of Sen. Ed Markey issued a press release that “Minnesota-based Optum Financial has purchased the physician group of Steward…

Massachusetts lawmakers are holding a hearing Monday to discuss private equity ownership in healthcare. This comes as Steward Health Care, which owns nine hospitals in Massachusetts is in the middle of a financial crisis. The company is now considering pulling out of the state. If this happens, health care will be far less accessible for hundreds of thousands of people….

Steward Health Care, which teeters on a financial crisis that could put multiple Massachusetts hospitals in jeopardy, is a “house of cards and a charade,” Gov. Maura Healey said on Monday, continuing to lash out at the for-profit health care system that is one of the state’s largest employers. A handful of executives that run the hospital system put...

It’s unclear what the next steps are for the troubled Steward Health Care.

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