NORWOOD — Steward Health Care said it will leave Norwood Hospital and its four affiliated clinics, forcing patients at satellite facilities in Norwood and Foxboro to go elsewhere.
Norwood Hospital flooded in 2020
Norwood Hospital has been closed since a flood damaged the building four years ago, but it has four satellite facilities. Steward said it will no longer operate these offices once their licenses expire in November.
State health officials said they are looking for options to continue care and hope a buyer comes forward for the hospital.
Norwood Hospital flooded in June 2020and construction on a new facility halted last February because Congressman Stephen Lynch said Steward Health Care had plans refrain from reopening.
Controversial Steward Health Care
Steward Health Care requested bankruptcy in May and subsequently placed all of its U.S. hospitals for sale.
Steward owned nine hospitals in Massachusetts. Despite that, two of them, Carney Hospital in Dorchester and Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer, are closed recoil of the community and legislators. In AugustGovernor Maura Healey said the state would seize St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Brighton used eminent domain and had made deals to save Saint Anne’s Hospital in Fall River, Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton, Morton Hospital in Taunton and Holy Family hospitals in Haverhill and Methuen.
Steward Health Care has been the focus of a CBS News investigation to the way in which private equity and other investor groups do this have siphoned off hundreds of millions of dollars from community hospitals. Steward CEO Ralph de la Torre got off of his position after he was held in contempt by the US Senate.
WBZ News Staff
