By Todd Wallack, Globe Staff | March 16, 2010 The chief executive of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, the state’s largest private health insurer, abruptly resigned yesterday, just… Read more »
Year: 2010
Top executive resigns at struggling Blue Cross
Hundreds of Nurses to Converge at State House on March 31 For Press Conference and Lobby Day To Push for Passage of Legislation to Prevent Workplace Violence As the House Takes Up Bill to Strengthen Penalties for Those Who Assault Nurses
WHAT: More than 200 nurses from across the Commonwealth, many of whom are the victims of workplace violence, will converge at the State House for a press conference and lobby… Read more »
On kids’ care, insurance weaseling begins
By Derrick Z. Jackson, Globe Columnist | March 30, 2010 IN THE days before the health care bill was passed, President Obama vowed it would “end the worst practices of… Read more »
Seeking lower-cost care
Caritas hospitals could carve niche under new owner By Steven Syre and Robert Gavin, Globe Staff | March 30, 2010 The New York private equity firm that last week struck… Read more »
Mediation begins, but Shaw’s strike goes on
By Jenn Abelson, Globe Staff | March 30, 2010 Shaw’s Supermarkets Inc. and its striking employees failed to reach an agreement when they met yesterday with a federal mediator. Workers’… Read more »
Equity firm set to buy Caritas
Catholic identity will be retained Hospitals to shift to for-profit status By Robert Weisman, Globe Staff | March 25, 2010 Caritas Christi Health Care, the state’s second-largest hospital group, is… Read more »
Cerberus’s success hurt by a pair of gambles
By Casey Ross, Globe Staff | March 25, 2010 Secretive even by the standards of the hushed world of private equity, Cerberus Capital Management is perhaps best known for two… Read more »
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Hope, hesitation over Caritas deal
Some see gain, others friction in for-profit plan By Robert Weisman, Globe Staff | March 26, 2010 Employees, patients, and community leaders said yesterday they are wary but hopeful after… Read more »