Steward Health Care System news and information

Steward Health Care System continues to lose money on its hospitals more than two years after the company was created by a private equity firm to take over Caritas Christi Health Care.
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John Maupin Jr., president of the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, will retire at the end of the next school year and, effective July 1, 2014, Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice will replace him. Montgomery Rice, 51, was named executive VP and dean in 2011, and she will retain the...
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A year after leaving Seattle Children's Hospital for Boston, Drexel DeFord has left his position as CIO of Steward Health Care System and joined venture capital firm Next Wave Health as a principal adviser.
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Medicare's most ambitious test of accountable care could lose a substantial number of its participants after the first year.
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Medicare's most ambitious test of accountable care could lose a substantial number of its participants after the first year.
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Steward Health Care System is blaming Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Rhode Island for tanking its bid to buy Landmark Medical Center in Woonsocket, R.I.
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Steward Health Care System, the Massachusetts hospital chain that last year abandoned its plans to buy Landmark Medical Center, is suing Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island, blaming the insurer for the deal's failure.
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Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber topped this year's list of the 50 Most Influential Physician Executives in Healthcare.
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Seven Boston area hospitals were treating at least 143 patients who were injured in the explosions that occurred earlier Monday at the Boston Marathon. At least three people had died.
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The Rhode Island attorney general's office and department of health have suspended their review of an application from a California hospital chain to purchase Landmark Medical Center, saying it is incomplete.
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