Carney Hospital in Dorchester closed its doors for the final time on Aug. 31 after its owner, Steward Health Care, filed for bankruptcy in May. Steward announced in late July that the for-profit ...

Carney closed in August as part of the bankruptcy of Steward Health Care, which owned the hospital. Carney had about 30,000 emergency department visits yearly before it closed. Since Carney’s closure, ...

In healthcare, two miles can mean life or death. A few months ago, Stephen Wood, a nurse practitioner in Dorchester’s Carney Hospital emergency department, saw a patient in critical condition.

He noted, however, that it is still a small sample size given the recency of Carney’s closure. Dr. Guy Fish, CEO of the Codman Square Health Center, in a Sept. 24 interview, said he is concerned the ...

In a Dorchester Reporter column, Bill Walczak, the former head of Codman and Carney, said Monday that the local health care system lacks the capacity to fill the void left by the closed hospital.

Carney Hospital in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood and Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer, Massachusetts officially closed their doors at 7 a.m. on Saturday, a decision made after the state ...

DORCHESTER - Two Massachusetts communities are bracing for a big blow as Carney Hospital in Dorchester and Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer closed for good early Saturday morning.

Steward is closing Carney Hospital in Dorchester and Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer as part of its bankruptcy proceedings. In both communities, patients and employees are saying a painful ...

Gittens was rushed to Carney Hospital, minutes from her home in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood. Last summer's emergency spanned two facilities as physicians unraveled a medical mystery.

As we move past the Steward crisis and into a new, perilous age for health care in Massachusetts, health care workers know what our patients deserve. We — and our unions — need to be part of the ...

This story was told by Stephen P. Wood, a nurse practitioner at Carney Hospital, a Steward Health Care hospital in Dorchester set to close by August 31. Wood’s story has been edited from a ...