BOSTON — An emergency room doctor who worked at Good Samaritan in Brockton and other community hospitals owned by Steward Health Care said private equity ownership of hospitals stands in the way of "safe and adequate care."

Dr. Ellana Stinson spoke to a U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing at the Massachusetts State House in Boston on Wednesday, April 3.

"I think this is a time where the community needs to start organizing and really demanding the resources that they need to get the care that they deserve," Stinson said after the event.

U.S. senators Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren hosted the hearing. Stinson joined a panel that included a campaigner with a non-profit watchdog, a union nurse from North Carolina and a pediatrician who ran the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under President Barack Obama before running for governor on a platform of single-payer health care.

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