MedPage Today January 2, 2025
— Rising costs have left many hospitals vulnerable to “the sway of private equity,” one expert says
In September, we reported on a Senate hearing that focused on the impact that Steward Health Care’s greed and mismanagement had on patients and healthcare workers. Here we report on what has happened since.
During a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing, nurses described the “unsafe” and “untenable” conditions across hospitals in the Steward Health system, which had filed for bankruptcy a few months earlier.
Approximately 15 patients in Steward hospitals died due to lack of medical equipment or staff, and many more lives were endangered, said HELP Committee Chair Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). All the while, Ralph de la...
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