Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) asked what the witnesses would have done with the $800 million dividend Cerberus siphoned out of the hospital in 2016, or the $40 million de la Torre spent on the larger of his two yachts. Ellen MacInnis, a 26-year veteran of St. Elizabeth's hospital in Brighton, suggested she might start by paying off the elevator mechanic. "I work on the 10th floor and there are supposed to be six elevators and one is working, and even that one [only] works most of the time," said MacInnis. Steward administrators devised a bizarre if creative solution: "They gave us these sleds, to drag patients who can't walk in an emergency, or if there's a fire in the building," she said. "I'm 65 years old. Do you think for one minute I can haul a patient down a flight of stairs in a sled? This is lunacy!"
