A group of more than 1,000 residents and fellows at UChicago Medicine is taking steps to unionize, following a recent, similar effort by peers at Northwestern Medicine.
A Senate committee has asked three major private-equity firms for information on how they run or staff hospital emergency departments to see if private equity's management of a large share of the nation's ERs has harmed patients.
The Minnesota conglomerate's plan to roll Stewardship Health, the physician arm of for-profit Steward Health Care, into its Optum subsidiary would mark a noteworthy departure from its usual fare.
Steward hospitals are staggering toward insolvency, but de la Torre emerges as a very rich man. And it is through a long stream of business decisions that de la Torre and equity partners bear great responsibility.