Friday’s news offered no new hope for Carney Hospital in Dorchester or Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer. “Somebody has to pay to continue to operate these hospitals,” Gov. Maura Healey said on Radio Boston, later adding, “the state has already contributed a lot.
This is an excerpt from WBUR's politics newsletter, Mass Politics. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox,owned by bankrupt Steward Health Care, the Healey administration plans to take over St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Brighton and hand it off to Boston Medical Center. Healey is using the power of eminent domain to take private property for public use. It’s allowed as long as the owner is paid market value — in this case, $4.5 million.
That includes the state itself. While Healey’s team is putting up a few million dollars to claw St. Elizabeth’s from Steward and the Apollo Global investors that control its property, she said last week onthe state can’t be on the hook indefinitely for staff salaries, supplies and all the costs of running a hospital.a year in state and federal matching funds to help the new hospital operators for the first three years.
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