A Globe Spotlight Team report on Steward Health Care

A Boston Globe Spotlight Team review found the Steward Health Care hospital system plagued by staggering neglect at the hands of executives, leaving Steward’s more than 30 hospitals among the worst, the most troubled, in the country over the last five years.

A jet flying in the sky

Jet travel, yacht adventures, and more. How Steward’s CEO used corporate funds as the company crumbled.

A Globe analysis rounds out a globetrotting portrait of how Steward CEO Ralph de la Torre and other executives spent their time — and the company’s money — in the months and years before it went under.

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  • Reporters: Liz Kowalczyk, Chris Serres, Jessica Bartlett, Elizabeth Koh, Mark Arsenault, and Yoohyun Jung
  • Contributors: Gordon Russell and Hanna Krueger of the Globe staff, and Khadija Sharife of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
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