Steward Health Care finalized offers to promote 4 hospitals in Massachusetts to new house owners, a transfer that retains these amenities from closing after months of considerations that communities might lose entry to important factors of care.
The Dallas-based firm mentioned Thursday it had entered into “definitive agreements” to promote St. Anne’s Hospital and Morton Hospital to Windfall-based Lifespan Health System and each campuses of Holy Household Hospital to Lawrence Common Hospital.
The corporate, which has been working by way of chapter over the previous yr, mentioned it is usually “finalizing an agreement” to promote each Good Samaritan Medical Middle in Brockton and St. Elizabeth’s Medical Middle in Brighton to Boston Medical Middle.
Steward Health Care Chief Restructuring Officer John Castellano mentioned the corporate is “thrilled” to have recognized consumers for the 4 amenities as Steward continues to maneuver by way of chapter proceedings.
“In Lifespan, Lawrence General Hospital and Boston Medical Center, we have found partners with established track records of treating communities in the northeast United States. Through these transactions, the people of the Commonwealth will continue to receive critically needed care while Steward continues to focus on its ongoing Chapter 11 process,” Castellano mentioned in a press release.
Gov. Maura Healey broadcast the chance of transferring some hospitals to new operators earlier this month when she introduced tentative offers on the 4 amenities.
“This agreement accomplishes our goal of maintaining and protecting access to care and jobs in Southeastern Massachusetts and the Merrimack Valley, while removing Steward Health Care from Massachusetts once and for all,” Healey mentioned in a press release saying the offers.
“I welcome Lifespan, its leadership and team to Southeastern Massachusetts and appreciate Lawrence General Hospital for stepping up to preserve care in the Merrimack Valley. All of us will work hard to bring this over the finish line,” she continued.
Health care employees are “incredibly relieved” after months of uncertainty that 4 Steward Health Care hospitals in Massachusetts are in new fingers, mentioned Tim Foley, government vp of 1199SEIU, a union representing well being care employees.
“Now, with Steward’s greed and mismanagement in the rear-view mirror at these sites, we can turn our full attention to the essential work of rebuilding our hospitals and caring for our patients,” Foley mentioned in a press release. “We urge Steward to quickly finalize the sale of St. Elizabeth’s and Good Samaritan, so that healthcare workers —and the patients who rely on our care — can stop living in fear, and focus on the future.”
Carney Hospital in Dorchester and Nashoba Valley Medical Middle in Ayer are nonetheless scheduled to shut by Saturday.
Healey’s administration is making an attempt to grab St. Elizabeth’s Medical Middle by way of eminent area, which has drawn resistance from the asset administration agency that controls the ability.
“We continue to work as quickly as possible to complete the agreement for another qualified operator to take over Good Samaritan, move forward on our plans to take control of St. Elizabeth’s through eminent domain, and support the communities impacted by the upcoming closures of Nashoba Valley and Carney Hospitals,” Healey mentioned in a press release.
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