Although a restraining order keeps federal funds flowing to states for now, providers fear executive orders may threaten future health services for residents.
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South Coast farms take precautions amid bird flu outbreak
Hundreds of wild birds and dozens of domestic birds have been infected with the H5N1 virus in Massachusetts communities this winter, including some in Lakeville and Westport.
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A new home for New Beginnings
Southcoast Health opens a new facility on Friday with addiction recovery services for pregnant women and mothers.
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Gov. Healey and AG weigh ‘accountability’ in Steward Health system
Attorney General Campbell says she is “concerned about the lack of transparency” from the financially strapped hospital owners.
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Steward: No plans to close Mass. hospitals
Company exec says bridge financing will “stabilize operations,” but hospital transfers to new owners are being contemplated.
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New Bedford addresses ‘period poverty’ as lawmakers push for free access to menstrual products
If passed, the “I AM” bill and similar pending legislation would require free menstrual products in the bathrooms of public elementary schools, secondary schools, state buildings, jails and homeless shelters.
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Impact of Steward crisis is unclear for Hawthorn Medical patients
DARTMOUTH — As a financial crisis unfolds at Steward Health Care, a local medical group tied to the company says it “has no plans to go anywhere” but otherwise is […]
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Steward last year protested health care ‘market failure’
When Steward submitted testimony to the Health Policy Commission last fall, it urged policymakers to take “bold actions to correct a hospital marketplace that has been functionally broken since the 1990s.”
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Gov. Healey monitoring ‘evolving situation’ at Steward Health Care
For-profit company that runs St. Anne’s Hospital in Fall River reportedly in “grave financial distress.”
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Southcoast Health to begin search for new president/CEO
Kruger said the plan was for him to serve as “someone who could help the system navigate a time of great adversity,” citing the pandemic and other challenges healthcare organizations are facing, and to eventually create a “course of succession when circumstances allowed and the time was right.”