Massachusetts used eminent domain to take over St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, Gov. Maura Healey announced, blaming an asset management firm for refusing a bid from Boston Medical Center to purchase the hospital from bankrupt Steward Health Care.=

Massachusetts has seized St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Boston’s Brighton neighborhood, using eminent domain in an effort to keep the Steward Health Care property open. Gov. Maura Healey plan involves transitioning operations of the hospital to Boston Medical Center. The governor says the move is necessary to avoid a public health emergency that would be set off by its...

The U.S. Senate approved a resolution Wednesday intended to hold Steward Health Care CEO Ralph de la Torre in criminal contempt for failing to testify before a Senate panel.

Almost a month after Carney Hospital and Nashoba Valley Medical Center closed their doors to patients, Gov. Maura Healey said Wednesday her administration is launching two working groups to assess future care options for communities around Dorchester and Ayer. Stakeholders representing various health care settings and levels of government will be tasked with producing recommendations to “promote equitable access to…

Members of a U.S. Senate committee looking into the bankruptcy of Steward Health Care adopted two resolutions Thursday designed to hold CEO Ralph de la Torre in contempt — one for civil enforcement and another for criminal contempt — for not testifying before the panel. The votes come after de la Torre refused to attend a committee hearing last week…

An attorney for Ralph de la Torre said in a new letter to senators that he “lacks the authority to speak on behalf of Steward with respect to the ongoing bankruptcy proceedings.”

Members of a U.S. Senate committee are planning to hold the CEO of Steward Health Care after Ralph de la Torre didn’t appear at a hearing, despite being subpoenaed

Two Steward nurses will testify at the hearing Thursday.

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Members of a Senate committee looking into the Steward Health Care bankruptcy said they plan to adopt two resolutions next week to hold Steward CEO Ralph de la Torre in contempt — one for civil enforcement and another for certification to the United States Attorney for criminal contempt — after he refused to attend a U.S. Senate hearing Thursday despite…

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....