Current:Home > InvestMassachusetts governor says a hospital was seized through eminent domain to keep it open-LoTradeCoin
Massachusetts governor says a hospital was seized through eminent domain to keep it open
View Date:2024-12-23 23:51:32
BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey announced Friday that her administration has formally seized a hospital through eminent domain to help keep it open and transition to a new owner.
St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Boston is one of a group operated by Texas-based Steward Health Care, which had announced its bankruptcy in May.
Operations will be transferred to Boston Medical Center, Healey said in a news release, adding, “we will protect access to care for tens of thousands of patients and save thousands of jobs.”
The action came after her administration announced last month that new operators had been secured for five of Steward’s seven hospitals in Massachusetts.
Lawrence General Hospital will become the new operator for both campuses of Holy Family in Haverhill and Methuen, Lifespan will assume operations of Morton and Saint Anne’s, and BMC will take over Good Samaritan. These transfers of ownership are expected to take effect on Oct. 1.
Steward received inadequate bids for two other hospitals, Carney Hospital in Boston and Nashoba Valley Medical Center in the town of Ayer, both of which have closed as a result.
A federal bankruptcy court this month approved the sale of Steward’s other Massachusetts hospitals.
veryGood! (23)
Related
- Shawn Mendes Confesses He and Camila Cabello Are No Longer the Closest
- Stock market today: Asian shares rise after Wall Street rallies to records
- Prosecutor tells jury former Milwaukee official who requested fake ballots was no whistleblower
- Hurry! Only six weeks left to consolidate student loan debt for a shot at forgiveness
- Kennesaw State football coach Brian Bohannon steps down after 10 seasons amid first year in FBS
- Landmark Peruvian Court Ruling Says the Marañón River Has Legal Rights To Exist, Flow and Be Free From Pollution
- Tilda Swinton says people may be 'triggered' by 'Problemista': 'They recognize themselves'
- Missouri Supreme Court declines to halt execution of a man who killed 2 in 2006
- The View's Sara Haines Walks Off After Whoopi Goldberg's NSFW Confession
- Kate's photo of Queen Elizabeth II with her grandkids flagged by Getty news agency as enhanced at source
Ranking
- Knicks Player Ogugua Anunoby Nearly Crashes Into Anne Hathaway and Her Son During NBA Game
- UK watchdog addressing data breach at hospital where Princess Kate had abdominal surgery
- USWNT get Germany, Australia in group stage at Paris Olympics; US men get host France
- M. Emmet Walsh, character actor from 'Blade Runner' and 'Knives Out,' dies at 88
- Ryan Reynolds Clarifies Taylor Swift’s Role as Godmother to His Kids With Blake Lively
- Georgia lawmakers approve income tax cuts for people and businesses
- Homelessness, affordable-housing shortage spark resurgence of single-room ‘micro-apartments’
- Aaron Taylor-Johnson Reacts to Public Criticism Over His Marriage to Sam Taylor-Johnson
Recommendation
-
Judge hears case over Montana rule blocking trans residents from changing sex on birth certificate
-
United Steelworkers union endorses Biden, giving him more labor support in presidential race
-
Who is Shohei Ohtani's interpreter? Dodgers fire Ippei Mizuhara amid gambling allegations
-
South Carolina House votes to expand voucher program. It’s fate in Senate is less clear
-
Cruise ship rescues 4 from disabled catamaran hundreds of miles off Bermuda, officials say
-
Idaho prisoner Skylar Meade at large after accomplice ambushed hospital, shot at Boise PD
-
Bruce Springsteen setlist 2024: Every song he sang at world tour relaunch in Phoenix
-
Their WWII mission was secret for decades. Now the Ghost Army will get the Congressional Gold Medal