With a host of Massachusetts hospitals and communities’ accessible health care put at risk by Steward Health System’s financial mismanagement, state policymakers are starting to assess the threat of profit-driven models in healthcare and how the issue may be legislatively addressed.
Health care
Steward Health Care’s financial crisis will be addressed in an April congressional hearing
Steward’s disastrous financial state wreaking havoc on Massachusetts hospitals and patients will be a key focus in a congressional hearing in April, while the health system continues to receive increased scrutiny by residents and elected officials.
Healey continues to knock major health provider
BOSTON — 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.
Gov. Healey tells hospital company Steward to leave after it misses financial deadline
“The financial information that Steward provided this week continues to be incomplete and insufficient,” state spokeswoman Karissa Hand said in a statement Saturday. “What Steward must do from this point forward is clear – complete an orderly transition out of Massachusetts.”
Editorial: Maternal monitoring proposal would help offset medical closures
When UMass Memorial Medical Center closed the Leominster hospital’s maternity ward back in September – over the objections of area residents, nurses, and the Department of Public Health – Gov. Maura Healey commissioned a study on statewide access to maternal health care, as well as access to essential services in northern Worcester County. Results […]
Steward hospitals attracting ‘interest’ from other operators
BOSTON — Steward Health Care’s landlord said Wednesday that Steward hospitals have drawn significant interest from other potential operators, the latest hint that facilities might soon be transferred away from the financially floundering for-profit system. A day after Gov. Maura Healey issued a biting call for Steward to hand off its licensed, operational Bay State […]
