BOSTON – Congresswoman Lori Trahan (D-Third District) said she’s determined to keep two Steward Health Care-owned hospitals in Massachusetts from permanently closing as she called for more regulation to keep this from happening again.
Trying to keep hospitals open
“We cannot let them run away from this mess that they created,” said Trahan of Steward Health Care , the operators of multiple Massachusetts hospitals who ran them into the ground before entering bankruptcy proceedings.
Most of the facilities have found new buyers. But two hospitals – Dorchester’s Carney Hospital, and the Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer, part of Trahan’s district – are set to close this weekend after new operators did not immediately surface.
“What Steward unfortunately did was they didn’t really leave us a lot of time between when they declared bankruptcy and when they announced their intention to close these hospitals, and the bankruptcy court judge in this case green-lighted that, which really dealt us a bad hand,” says Trahan on the Sunday morning edition of “Keller At Large.” “What we’ve shifted from is how are we going to prevent the closure of Nashoba Valley to how are we going to work to ensure that this hospital reopens under new ownership as quickly as possible?”