“I feel honored to once again lead my physician colleagues, who have entrusted me with this great responsibility,” Crimaldi said in the press release. “I also welcome the opportunity to work with hospital leadership to advocate on behalf of our clinicians and patients.”
"We for some reason had urgency in the pandemic that we've lost since the pandemic when, in fact, those same communities are dying, but it's not COVID," Curry told attendees at a Wednesday legislative briefing. "It's diabetes, it's heart disease. It's a whole list of things."
As Heywood Hospital continues to navigate the bankruptcy process it began in October, the Gardner facility’s nurses have secured a new contract their union claims will help address alleged long-standing issues with staffing levels and stagnant wages.
Minutes after that deadline passed, Healey's office said that Steward on Thursday communicated to the state that it does not have the audited financial statements officials had sought.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down day programs and other services for adults living with disabilities, there has been a backlog of people unable to get back into those programs that advocates say are necessary for their mental and physical wellbeing. A large part of the problem is workforce shortages that have particularly affected home and health care settings.
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.
Healey penned a three-page letter to Steward CEO Ralph de la Torre, which her office publicized, alleging that his team has "not been forthcoming, truthful or responsive" about the apparent financial distress the hospitals are facing.