Boston police raided two residences in Dorchester over the past week, seizing nearly 100 grams of fentanyl and nearly $90,000 in cash from two men charged with trafficking the drug, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office said Wednesday. In a Nov. 23 raid, members of the Boston Police Drug Control Unit executed search warrants on … Read more
The Wu administration announced the 32 members who will sit on a working group dedicated to studying the impacts of Steward Health Care’s decision to close Carney Hospital and planning for future healthcare access at the Dorchester site. Subscribe to continue reading this article. Already subscribed? To login in, click here. Read original article here … Read more
If Steward Health Care wants to cancel their lease they have to give up their hospitals, the company’s landlords say as Steward moved to delay its sales hearing again. The drama surrounding Steward Health Care’s decision to close a pair of its Massachusetts hospitals and sell a half-dozen others seemed to be coming to a … Read more
Boston’s Caribbean community, donning bright, exquisite costumes of crowns, feathers, masks, and rhinestones danced and sang along the streets of Roxbury and Dorchester as a strong police presence kept watch over the celebration. “I always feel safe,” Montserrat native Jadine Greenaway told the Herald Saturday afternoon as she prepared for the city’s annual Caribbean parade. … Read more
Steward Health Care has not yet signed over any of their Bay State hospitals but is close to getting the job done, their lawyers told a bankruptcy court on Thursday. The company is attempting to sell most of its Massachusetts properties to new operators, as they work to square $9 billion in outstanding debt obligations … Read more
Steward Health Care has pushed back a hearing over the fate of its Massachusetts hospitals for a fifth time. According to overnight court filings, now-bankrupt Steward’s Friday hearing to discuss the sale of several Bay State hospitals will now be held next Thursday. “Pursuant to the Bidding Procedures Order, the Sale Hearing for the Debtors’ … Read more
If residents of Dorchester thought they were going to hear some good news regarding the fate of their community hospital during a Department of Public Health hearing, officials were quick to dash those hopes when they said there is nothing they can do to stop what is happening. The state cannot and will not get … Read more
Two men were shot, one fatally, inside a Dorchester home on Monday evening, Boston Police said. Police responded to a report of a shooting at 5 Trent St. at approximately 6:36 p.m. and found two men suffering from gunshot wounds, Deputy Superintendent Paul McLaughlin said. Both men were taken to a local hospital, where one … Read more
The public may finally learn this week who has bid on Steward Health Care’s Bay State hospitals and whether any more hospitals are on the chopping block. A hearing on the sale of the now-bankrupt healthcare company’s Massachusetts assets is set for Tuesday, when Texas-based federal bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez will hear about Steward’s plan … Read more
More than 1,000 employees are set to be laid off when Steward Health Care closes two of its Massachusetts hospitals at the end of the month, the bankrupt Dallas-based company told the state. When Carney Hospital in Dorchester and Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer close on or around Aug. 31, roughly 1,243 employees at … Read more
