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Ralph de la Torre oversaw Steward's collapse. Meet the corporate board that OK'd many of his decisions.

By The Boston Globe  
   October 07, 2024

When Ralph de la Torre resigned Tuesday from Steward Health Care, many of the nurses and doctors across the national hospital chain rejoiced and called it the start of a new era. But the new Steward may not look all that different from the old one. Steward's board of directors, in a step experts in corporate governance call highly unusual, eschewed appointing a successor to de la Torre, leaving the teetering health system without even an interim CEO or chairman. Now, Steward is led by that same board — and many of the same people — that seems to have offered little or no resistance as Steward's hospitals were starved of resources and de la Torre got rich on massive dividends.

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