The measure seeks to facilitate the completion of construction on the hospital that was damaged by devastating floods in 2020.
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Gov. Maura Healey has signed a bill into law that would allow her administration to seize Norwood Hospital and transfer or lease it to a qualified nonprofit entity, following more than six years of the hospital sitting vacant.
Beginning Nov. 1, the law authorizes the state Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance (DCAMM) to take the 11-acre property from its owner, Medical Properties Trust, Inc., an Alabama-based real estate investment trust, through the process of eminent domain…