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.

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.

The agreement with Medical Properties Trust allows the hospital operator to continue digging out of financial turmoil.

The U.S. Senate approved a resolution Wednesday intended to hold Steward Health Care CEO Ralph de la Torre in criminal contempt.

With his affinity for luxury yachts and corporate jets, de la Torre became a symbol of greed in for-profit health care, amid mounting stories this year of patients harmed by staff and shortages of critical supplies at Steward hospitals.

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.

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 resign as CEO of Steward Health Care, more than nine months after reports of the for-profit hospital chain’s financial problems first began to surface.

The Senate approved a resolution​ on Wednesday that was intended to hold Ralph de la Torre in criminal contempt for failing to testify​ before a committee.

The CEO of a hospital operator that filed for bankruptcy protection in May will step down after failing to testify before a U.S. Senate panel.

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