New York private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management formed Steward when it bought six
Caritas Christi Health Care community hospitals, including St.
"Several activities in Catholic health care, most notably the change in structure of Boston-based
Caritas Christi Health Care, necessitated this review," it said.
Among these is Todd Rothenhaus, M.D., senior vice president and CIO at the six-hospital, 1,500-bed
Caritas Christi Health Care System, based in Brighton, Mass.
Cerberus Capital Management, a private equity firm in New York City, in March announced plans to buy
Caritas Christi Health Care, Boston, for $830 million.
US hospital operator
Caritas Christi Health Care, or CCHC, announced on Thursday it had agreed to be taken over by Steward Healthcare System LLC, a newly set up unit of home private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management.
Unfortunately, the two are tough to reconcile, Ralph de la Torre, president and CEO of the community-based hospital network
Caritas Christi Health Care, told CEOs attending a discussion on healthcare reform.
Caritas Christi Health Care is the second largest health system in New England with six acute care hospitals.
O'Malley of the Catholic Church of Boston is again being accused of turning his back on victims of sexual abuse, this time at the
Caritas Christi Health Care System.
Adecco, the temporary employment agency, and
Caritas Christi Health Care have also turned down their gay employees' request for the same spousal benefits other employees receive.
Partners+simons clients include Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts,
Caritas Christi Health Care, Applied Biosystems and Iron Mountain.
"If it's a very serious illness, perhaps even a terminal illness, a lot of times it seems to be a turning point in a person's life," says Robert Short, director of parish-based health for the
Caritas Christi Health Care System, which, for the past eight years, has helped establish parish nursing programs in 225 congregations in the Boston area, many of them Catholic.