Jessica Bartlett

The crisis at Steward Health Care is squeezing other hospitals in Eastern Massachusetts as some patients avoid the bankrupt hospital system and state health officials scramble to contain the fallout.

A recent Globe Spotlight Team investigation revealed how Steward has relied on Audere International to surveil and gather dirt on people viewed as problematic by the hospital chain’s executives.

The federal probe is the latest plot development in a high-stakes drama surrounding the Boston-born health care system.

Ralph de la Torre, the Steward founder, chairman, and chief executive, drew a gross salary of $3,766,461.36, the document said.

In a surprise move Friday, a lawyer for Steward Health Care told the judge overseeing the company's bankruptcy proceedings that it now has signed

In the past five years, Steward hospitals accrued more than 300 deficiency findings from federal hospital regulators.

Most of the insurer’s assets are in the form of IOUs from Steward Health Care, which went bankrupt in May.

Mass General Brigham, the state's largest health care system, remained on solid financial ground in 2024, a news release Wednesday showed, running

The latest earnings release ran counter to a drumbeat of concern that the state’s hospitals are all in financial jeopardy.

S teward Health Care's in-house malpractice insurer, TRACO, is asking a bankruptcy judge to force the failed hospital company to fork over tens of