First Lady Jill Biden is in Massachusetts on Wednesday morning, where she is expected to announce $100 million in federal funding for research and development into women’s health that she is heading up at an event in Cambridge.
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Healey says Steward should transfer ownership of hospitals, leave the state
Patients in Brockton, Massachusetts, are anxiously awaiting the fate of Steward Health Care as the organization grapples with a financial crisis.
Gov. Maura Healey said that Steward should transfer ownership of the hospitals and leave the state altogether.
She’s demanding Steward create an action plan to detail how they plan to address these financial woes, saying if they don’t comply, the state will act by possibly freezing admissions to any of their nine hospitals in the state, closing beds and transferring patients to other hospitals.
In a three-page letter to Steward CEO Ralph de la Torre, she listed several demands, including ensuring safe staffing and supply levels, allowing the state Department of Public Health to put monitors in all of its locations and immediately its financial record.
Steward — a Texas-based health care system — reportedly owes $50 million in unpaid rent. Healey called on them to produce those financial documents by the end of the day this Friday.
“For years, you have refused to engage in the same level of basic transparency that every other system in the state offers by not releasing your audited financial statements,” the governor wrote in the letter.
While the letter didn’t say what consequences the health care system would face if it didn’t comply, Healey Cced the acting U.S. attorney for Massachusetts and the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office.
U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch will tour Good Samaritan on Wednesday. He’s expected to be joined by Steward officials.
Fire breaks out in Sudbury home
A fire broke out in a home in Sudbury, Massachusetts, early Wednesday morning.
The fire occurred on Goodman’s Hill Road.
Massachusetts State Police assigned to the State Fire Marshal’s Office are assisting in the investigation, offi…
Healey administration revokes Milton grant due to MBTA housing law noncompliance
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey’s administration anounced Wednesday morning that they have revoked state grant funding for the town of Milton because it is not in compliance with the state’s MBTA Communities Law.
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Driver charged with OUI after car crashes into Brockton home
A driver is facing charges after crashing a car into a house in Brockton, Massachusetts, late Tuesday night, according to authorities.
The incident occurred just after 10 p.m. on Crescent Street, Brockton police said.
A Honda Civic was traveling east on Crescent Street when it hit a curb, causing it to go through a fence and hit the house, police said.
The driver of the car, whose name wasn’t immediately released, was taken to the hospital. Their condition wasn’t known.
The driver was charged with operating under the influence, marked lanes violation and possession of an open container in the vehicle.
The crash remains under investigation.
Search continues for suspects in back-to-back Hyde Park robberies
The search continues Wednesday for two suspects involved in a string of robberies in Boston’s Hyde Park neighborhood.
The suspects were in their 20s and targeted Hyde Park Market on River Street and a CVS pharmacy, Boston police said.
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