Massachusetts sets up Steward bankruptcy response system
On Friday, the Massachusetts Government Salvage of abode of enterprise of Effectively being and Human Services launched an incident-issue system designed to raised coordinate care response within the wake ofSteward Effectively being Care filing Chapter 11 bankruptcyand be the essential point of communication with healthcare organizations, first responders and others within the assign.
WHY IT MATTERS
Dr. Gregg Meyer, senior vice chairman for quality and security at Massachusetts Identical old Effectively being facility and Massachusetts Identical old Physicians Group, will lead the issue heart, which is able to coordinate responses from mutter agencies, hospitals, crew health centers, crew provider organizations and others.
Steward, which has 33 hospitals in 9 states, includingeight in Massachusettsfiled voluntary petitions for relief within the U.S. Economic fracture Court for the Southern District of Texas.
Massachusetts Secretary of Effectively being and Human Services Kate Walsh urged mutter legislators this previous week that mutter agencies had been getting ready for a pending Steward bankruptcy filing, essentially essentially based on Boston-essentially essentially based WBUR.
Below the phrases of the filing, Steward said this can withhold its operations operating.
Speak officers said that the hospitals live originate and are offering care, essentially essentially based onWBURbut DPH will monitor the facilities for critical presents and staffing to make certain that protected and effective care will be delivered.
THE LARGER TREND
In March, Steward Effectively being Care in Massachusetts agreed tosell its doctor crew to Optum Care.
Steward blamed reducing authorities compensation charges as a predominant element and rising labor, operations and supplies prices for its precarious financial scenario.
ON THE RECORD
“This week, the Massachusetts Department of Public Effectively being activated its Emergency Operation Thought as portion of our ongoing commitment to be clear affected person security, protect get entry to to care and help jobs,” Walsh said in a observation. “This next step is portion of our persevered response to Steward Effectively being Care’s financial challenges.”
Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.
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