Steward Health Care Systems will face a bipartisan Senate investigation and its chief executive officer will be served a subpoena, after a Senate committee vote Thursday.
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, chaired by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), voted 20-1 to authorize an investigation into the bankruptcy of the largest for-profit hospital system in the country. It also authorized a subpoena of Steward’s Chairman and CEO Ralph de la Torre for testimony relating to the investigation.
“I say this directly to Dr. de la Torre: You cannot treat communities as expendable,” Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) said at ...
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