Steward Health Care

Muldoon worked his last day on Jan. 31, after reversing the Worcester hospital's fortunes in the last four years.

Next year, many people covered by MassHealth will be transitioned into a new system of care delivery intended to improve their care while making the program sustainable.

Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer and Steward Health Care Network have joined forces to form a MassHealth accountable care organization.

Most acute care hospital systems in Massachusetts were profitable during the 2016 fiscal year, but the median financial margin fell from the previous fiscal year.

More mergers and acquisitions among hospitals are happening this year than last, according to a new analysis that cites two Massachusetts-based providers as announcing some of the biggest transactions in 2017 so far.

Large parent companies are moving in on Central Massachusetts doctors groups.

Steward Health Care, which operates the Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer and the Central Massachusetts Independent Physicians Association, on Friday announced plans to acquire a Tennessee-based hospital operator, making it the largest private for-profit hospital operator in the United States.

Representatives from hospitals, the insurance industry and business groups struck a near unanimous chord Wednesday in urging state officials to adopt a lower target for measuring growth in health care spending.

Steward Health Care, which recently moved into Central Massachusetts with the planned takeover of a physicians network, has roughly doubled its overall size by buying eight hospitals outside the region.

Profit-driven health care is a growing local and national trend that doesn't necessarily carry ill effects.