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.
They died in hallways. In line. Alone. Their deaths are the human cost of Steward’s financial neglect.
On the whole, Steward’s more than 30 hospitals have been among the worst, the most troubled in the country over the last five years, according to several measures.
Read moreRead the stories of patients who died after seeking care at Steward hospitals
The Spotlight Team identified at least 15 instances in which Steward Hospital patients died after failing to receive professionally accepted standards of care due to equipment or staffing shortages.
Read moreTimeline: Steward Health Care kept expanding, even as the situation at hospitals turned dire
See key moments in the explosive growth and ultimate collapse of Steward Health Care.
Read moreDatabase: Federal deficiency reports for Steward Health Care’s hospitals
In the past five years, Steward hospitals accrued more than 300 deficiency findings from federal hospital regulators.
Read moreJet 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.
Read moreRalph de la Torre may be out at Steward, but the corporate board behind him is still in charge
Corporate boards are supposed to hold the CEO accountable. In Steward’s case, it did anything but, according to a new Spotlight investigation.
Read moreInside the secret financial dealings of Steward CEO Ralph de la Torre
A new Spotlight investigation reveals that as Steward Health spiraled toward bankruptcy, the CEO used its bank account as his own.
Read moreMore coverage
Steward Health Care spent millions on surveillance of its critics — even amid financial crisis
Steward’s medical devices were repossessed. Weeks later, a new mother died.
Credits
- 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
- Editors: Brendan McCarthy and Mark Morrow
- Visuals editor: Tim Rasmussen
- Photographers: Craig Walker, Barry Chin, Kayla Bartkowski, David Ryan, and Andrew Burke-Stevenson
- Director of photography: Bill Greene
- Photo editors: Kevin Martin and Leanne Burden Seidel
- Design: Ashley Borg, John Hancock
- Development and graphics: John Hancock
- Digital editor: Christina Prignano
- Copy editor: Michael J. Bailey
- Quality assurance: Meredith Stern and Michael Johnston
- Audience: Cecilia Mazanec, Jenna Reyes, and Peter Bailey-Wells
- SEO strategy: Ronke Idowu Reeves
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