BOSTON — Public health officials, alarmed by staffing and supply shortages at financially troubled Steward Health Care hospitals, have sent monitors to Good Samaritan Medical Center and plan to dispatch them to Morton Hospital this week and Saint Anne's next week.

Commissioner of Public Health Dr. Robert H. Goldstein announced Wednesday that Department of Public Health watchers have been at Good Sam, Brockton's only remaining trauma center, for two weeks.

"This is a situation that is enormously challenging and unsustainable," Goldstein said.

Inspection records for Good Sam document failures such as not having enough nurses to meet the needs of patients.

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