The for-profit Steward network one of the state's biggest hospital operators is in grave financial distress and may be on the brink of failure, according to health care leaders and state officials.
The ripples of financial difficulties at Steward have been felt by its employees, vendors, state officials and patients for years, but the state is now scrambling to prepare for what could become a tsunami if the for-profit company shutters some, or all, of its Massachusetts hospitals.
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The Schedule A list, first created in 1965 by the Department of Labor, identifies occupations experiencing labor shortages and allows immigrants in those occupations to expedite their employment in the U.S.
BOSTON — Hospitals, nursing homes, insurers and state regulators in Massachusetts have banded together to agree to voluntarily and temporarily adapt operations in an attempt to ease some of the