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.=

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…

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....

“The sudden absence of ER level 4 and level 5 services means that people will die,” said the CEO of nearby Codman Square Health Center, which is already seeing a surge in new patients.

A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge approved the sale of six Steward Health Care hospitals here Wednesday, though he left some of the exact details of the deals to be resolved before the end of the month.

As Steward Health Care prepares to make the case in federal court Wednesday that the deals it reached to sell four Massachusetts hospital facilities should be quickly approved, a number of others would like to have a word — including key lenders for the bankrupt company, the Archdiocese of Boston and the IRS.

The Carney Hospital in Dorchester and Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer closed their doors Saturday morning at 7 a.m.

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Two Steward Health Care facilities are closing on Saturday, the Carney Hospital in Dorchester and Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer.

The Carney Hospital in Dorchester and Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer are closing despite months of pressure from politicians who say its executives are putting profits over people.

Gov. Maura Healey says Steward Health Care has reached deals that will save St. Elizabeth’s and Good Samaritan.