With a quick three-count and a flick of their wrists, Gov. Maura Healey and Brown University Health CEO John Fernandez flipped a sign outside Saint Anne’s Hospital along South Main Street, covering the old Steward Health Care logo with a sign for the hospital’s new parent company.
Switching owners from Steward to Brown has, in reality, been much more complicated than a simple logo-switch.
“This was a crisis in Massachusetts,” Healey said, “but we showed what’s possible when we work together as a team, when we work in partnership for a greater good.”
Speaking of bankrupt Steward and its CEO Ralph de la Torre, Healey added that “we did something important and got a bad, unethical operator out of Massachusetts once and for all.”
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