BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey said time's up for Steward Health Care, calling on the financially troubled network to hand over its hospitals to other operators.

In a Tuesday letter, the first-term Democrat gave Steward Health Care until the end of the day Friday to hand over audited financial reports the hospital owner has kept under wraps for years despite a court order.

Steward owns Brockton's Good Samaritan Medical Center, Morton Hospital in Taunton, Saint Anne's in Fall River and six other Bay State hospitals. Healey vowed to "take all actions necessary" to protect patients including "freezing admissions, closing beds, cancelling procedures and transferring patients to other hospitals."

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