NORTH PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — The head of a nonprofit that controls millions of dollars from the former charitable assets of Roger Williams Medical Center and Fatima Hospital says the group is still weighing whether to go along with calls to give back the money.
“We haven’t said that we won’t do it,” Paula Iacono, executive director of the Chartercare Foundation, told Target 12 in a phone interview Thursday. “We’re just considering all the options and making sure that we’re true to the donors’ original wishes.”
The fight over more than $6 million that is now in the hands of Iacono’s group has emerged as a key piece of the puzzle in efforts to salvage a deal that would keep the two safety-net hospitals open. Their for-profit owner, Prospect Medical Holdings, filed for bankruptcy earlier this year…