Steward Health Care

Steward wants to sell physician group to another for-profit concern

By adamg - 3/26/24 - 9:54 pm

The State House News Service reports on the possible sale to OptumCare, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, which already runs for-profit physician centers in Massachusetts.

Looks like Steward Health Care will have to hire lawyers to defend it from a suit by lawyers who used to defend it

By adamg - 3/26/24 - 2:45 pm

A Southborough law firm that says it used to defend troubled Steward Health Care against lawsuits involving employment discrimination and violations of the state consumer-protection law yesterday sued the company for not paying its bills. Read more.

How St. Elizabeth's and Carney got to this point

By adamg - 1/29/24 - 9:30 am

The American Prospect reports, in hindsight, it should have been easy to figure out how Steward Health Care would begin circling the drain more than a decade ago. Key point:

For ten years, the hospital chain, which originated as an agglomeration of nun-operated Boston-area neighborhood hospitals known as Caritas Christi, was owned by the private equity firm Cerberus, which extracted more than $800 million in excess of its investment out of the hospitals, then left during the pandemic.

New mother at St. Elizabeth's died from internal bleeding; doctors used to have devices to stop that, but they were repossessed by their maker because the hospital couldn't pay for them

By adamg - 1/25/24 - 2:16 pm

The Globe reports the financial crisis at the company that owns St. Elizabeth's - and Carney Hospital in Dorchester - can have direct patient impact, like when a woman is bleeding internally but the hospital no longer had the embolization coils that might have stopped the bleeding because it couldn't pay for them, and she has to be transferred across the city to another hospital, but by then it's too late and she dies.

Norwood Hospital remains shut 18 months after damaging rain burst; owner sues insurers for not paying enough to replace it

By adamg - 11/24/21 - 9:42 am

Steward Health Care System yesterday sued its insurance companies for allegedly dragging their feet and trying to cheap out on payments to build a brand new Norwood Hospital to replace the one the hospital network says was essentially destroyed by an intense amount of rain one day in June, 2020. Read more.

Did hospital chain consult with Barbra Streisand on Globe lawsuit?

By adamg - 8/21/14 - 6:21 pm

Seems Steward Health Care didn't like what it was hearing about a Globe story coming out this Sunday focusing on one family's struggles with a mentally ill member who received care at several Steward facilities so it sued the Globe and the patient to try to get an advance look at the article and release the patient's medical records.

Steward lost and now it's gotten lots of people interested in just what the story will say.