Steward Health Care has deals in the works to sell more than two dozen hospitals and its physician group as part of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy process.

Ralph de la Torre will step down from his role as CEO of Steward Health Care as the for-profit network of hospitals and healthcare continues to undergo bankruptcy proceedings, his personal spokesperson told Boston 25 News Saturday.

The U.S. Senate approved a resolution Wednesday intended to hold Steward Health Care CEO Ralph de la Torre in criminal contempt for failing to testify before a Senate panel. The senate approved the measure by unanimous consent.

Steward Health Care leaves behind a hospital landscape that has been weakened by the company's meltdown and its closure of five hospitals over the past decade.

Ralph de la Torre, the controversial chief executive officer of one of the nation’s largest private health systems, Steward Health Care System, will step down from his position Oct. 1.

Ralph de la Torre will step down as CEO of troubled Steward Health Care next week, the company said on Saturday, after he was held in criminal contempt by the U.S. Senate for refusing to testify about cost-cutting decisions at the group's 31 hospitals before it filed for bankruptcy.

Steward Health Care CEO Ralph de la Torre will be stepping down after refusing to testify before a U.S. Senate panel on how his health care company went belly up — earning him a referral to a

He's leaving the bankrupt company after all of its hospitals in Massachusetts were either closed, sold or seized.