Steward Health Care's landlord, Medical Properties Trust has started a process to sell or find new tenants for facilities including those operated by the financially troubled for-profit hospital chain.
Four years after catastrophic flooding closed Norwood Hospital, contractors have stopped work on the reconstruction of the facility operated by troubled Steward Health Care, saying they haven't been paid.
The Massachusetts congressional delegation is asking the private equity founders of Steward Health Care to account for how much money they took out of the hospital chain.
CarePoint Health is being called out by the New Jersey Department of Health. Financial problems within the three hospitals that make up the system have the state demanding a disaster plan be delivered.
Many in the healthcare industry were unwilling to speak on the record about de la Torre, but in a dozen interviews, some blamed the company's flagging finances on greed — and some are taking particular aim at de la Torre.
The threat of closing hospitals has caused a public health scare in Massachusetts over the last two weeks, and it has put the financials and operating practices of Steward Health Care under a microscope.