MedPage Today September 13, 2024
— Steward CEO, Ralph de la Torre, MD, was a “no-show” at hearing, despite subpoena
Witnesses described the impact that Steward Health Care’s greed and mismanagement has had on patients and healthcare workers during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing on Thursday.
Ellen MacInnis, RN, a former Steward nurse at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Boston, said she was present at hundreds of staffing and labor management meetings over the last 12 years that detailed “unsafe” and “untenable” conditions.
As a board member of the Massachusetts Nurses Association, “we represent hundreds of nurses who just sometimes struggle to come into work, to put one foot in front of another,” she said. “It ruins you.”
“The way...
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