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.”
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The Light on Radio: Jack Spillane talks monkeypox, heat islands, rising sewer bills, shell fishing and more
New Bedford Light columnist Jack Spillane joined WBSM’s Jim Phillips on Townsquare Sunday on Aug. 14, 2022 to talk about monkeypox in New Bedford, heat islands, rising sewer bills, shell […]
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Dr. Patricia Andrade on race, gender, medicine and her ‘fix-it mentality’
“I’m not sure if it’s a gender thing or color, because I present with both issues … There aren’t many women in surgery, never mind women of color in surgery. … I’m the first of a whole host of things.”
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New Bedford City Council ignores effect of health care costs on city budget
Mitchell as far back as 2018 supplied the council with facts and figures about the alleged benefits of the health care plan, including that in the first few years of accepting the state law, Fall River saved $3.7 million; Dartmouth $511,000; Fairhaven $540,000; and Acushnet $190,000.
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South Coast residents struggle to get health care, insurance
On health insurance, the report finds that most Massachusetts residents (93.3 percent) had continuous coverage throughout the past year. But the percentage was lowest, 89.4 percent, in the South Coast region. That translates to around 36,200 South Coast residents without continuous coverage.
