Sen. Bernie Sanders and colleagues on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee are opening an investigation into Steward Health Care, a network of hospitals that went bankrupt, and have subpoenaed the company’s CEO.
Steward, a for-profit company that owns 31 hospitals across the country, is in bankruptcy proceedings and has been seeking to sell its hospitals.
Steward did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the Senate vote and whether de la Torre would testify. A prominent cardiac surgeon in Boston, de la Torre hadafter founding the hospital system in 2008 and promising to use his new organization to better coordinate care for patients.Senators on Thursday alleged that de la Torre’s decisions resulted in new threats to patient care, rather than improving it. Sen.