Healey Defends St. Elizabeth’s Eminent Domain Taking
The Massachusetts attorney general’s office defended Gov. Maura Healey’s decision to seize St. Elizabeth Medical Center through eminent domain during the Steward Health Care bankruptcy.
The Massachusetts attorney general’s office defended Gov. Maura Healey’s decision to seize St. Elizabeth Medical Center through eminent domain during the Steward Health Care bankruptcy.
The vacant Carney Hospital property in Dorchester, which Steward Health Care shuttered to patients last month, should remain a health care facility in the future, Boston City Council President Ruthzee Louijeune said in a television interview that aired this weekend.
Steward Health Care will sell St. Anne’s Hospital in Fall River and Morton Hospital in Taunton for $175 million; the Holy Family Hospital facilities in Methuen and Haverhill for $28 million; and Good Samaritan Medical Center and St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center for as much as $140 million.
The firms that control the real estate of St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Brighton rejected what they say is the state’s low-ball offer for the property and told Gov. Maura Healey that they will “vigorously challenge” her plan to take the land beneath bankrupt Steward Health Care’s hospital by eminent domain.
A Norwood medical building anchored by Steward Health Care has been sold for $23.5 million.
State health care officials see a likely limited impact on spending associated with Steward Health Care’s acquisition of a physician network in the Worcester County and Springfield areas and have opted against conducting a full cost and market review of the transaction.