Boston Medical Center to save St. Elizabeth’s in Brighton, Brockton hospital
Boston Medical Center has swooped in to run St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Brighton and grab Brockton hospital in a bankruptcy fire sale.
Gov. Maura Healey announced Friday evening that BMC has signed “an asset purchase agreement to acquire and operate Good Samaritan Hospital in Brockton.”
“In addition,” Healey’s office said, “BMC and Steward have reached an agreement to transfer the operations of St. Elizabeth’s (in Brighton) to BMC while the state presses forward with its plan to take the hospital by eminent domain.”
This signals that BMC is in line to pick up both hospitals bring the total number sold out of the Steward bankruptcy to six.
Steward, the Dallas-based company, said Thursday it had entered into “definitive agreements” to sell St. Anne’s Hospital in Fall River and Morton Hospital in Tanton to Providence-based Lifespan Health System and both campuses of Holy Family Hospital in Methuen and Haverhill to Lawrence General Hospital.
This comes as Carney Hospital in Dorchester and Nashoba Valley Health Center in Ayer are set to close Saturday.
“We’ll continue to press ahead with our plans to take St. Elizabeth’s by eminent domain to keep that hospital open,” Healey said in a statement.
The agreements will now have to be approved by the bankruptcy court Sept. 4.