Since filing Chapter 11 in October, Rite Aid has said it will close more than 520 locations. The closures represent nearly a quarter of the 2,111 stores Rite Aid operated when it entered bankruptcy.
Dallas-based Steward Health Care filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Monday, saying it will move to restructure its debt under court supervision and keep running its hospitals across the U.S. — including eight in Massachusetts — as it does so.
Massachusetts public health officials have activated an "emergency operations plan" to ensure continued access to medical care as the Steward Health Care hospital system faces an increasingly worrying financial outlook.
Patients who are medically cleared to be discharged from a hospital continue to stay much longer than they need to largely because they cannot get the ongoing specialized care they require.
In what could be a harbinger of things to come for struggling rural hospitals, Mahnomen Health will transition its 10-bed hospital to a rural emergency center starting Wednesday.