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 […]
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Healey: ‘Time has come’ for Steward to transfer its hospitals
BOSTON — Escalating her administration’s response to a potential health care crisis, Gov. Maura Healey on Tuesday suggested Steward Health Care transfer its Massachusetts hospitals to new operators “as soon as possible” and demanded long-sought financial information about the for-profit system in the next few days. Healey penned a three-page letter to Steward CEO Ralph […]
DiZoglio says Auditor’s office not seeing the ‘love’ on Beacon Hill
The cold shoulder comes in the form of Gov. Maura Healey’s 2025 budget proposal, which does not fund her office at the same levels as other “similarly situated” constitutional offices, Auditor Diana DiZoglio said.
US Rep. Jim McGovern slams denial of disaster declaration
U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern is blasting the Biden administration for denying Gov. Maura Healey’s request for a major disaster declaration in Bay State communities hit hard by “devastating floods” last September.
Biden denies Leominster FEMA disaster aid for flood
LEOMINSTER — After months of damage forms, data collection, applications, and consultants, the city received some unwelcome news Monday night. Officials learned that President Joe Biden had decided not to sign the disaster declaration for the city and FEMA officials had determined that the Sept. 11 flood had not caused damage of “such severity and […]
Former RI transit official to lead western rail expansion
There are still many steps on the path to a functioning West-East Rail system across Massachusetts, but the Healey administration took one key step Tuesday in naming a director for the project. The administration turned to Andy Koziol, a University of Massachusetts Amherst graduate with nearly 16 years of transportation experience, as its new point […]