Becker's Healthcare July 8, 2024
The Labor Committee of Mass-Care has unveiled a white paper detailing three key steps that can be taken to prevent Dallas-based Steward Health Care from closing its nine Massachusetts hospitals.
The June 20 paper, “The Steward Hospital Crisis: How Medicare for All and Eminent Domain Would Solve this Problem,” detailed how Massachusetts has seen 42 inpatient closures from 2009 to 2022.
Steward filed for bankruptcy May 6 and is looking to auction off its hospitals and physician group, Stewardship Health. The paper breaks down how Steward selling these assets off to for-profit corporations is not the answer and looks at how the proposed legislation An Act Establishing Medicare for All in Massachusetts would handle the Steward crisis and...
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