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| Steward Health Care System | |||||||||||
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| Geography | |||||||||||
| Location | Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts, United States | ||||||||||
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| Care system | Private | ||||||||||
| Type | Teaching | ||||||||||
| Affiliated university | Tufts University School of Medicine | ||||||||||
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| Emergency department | Yes | ||||||||||
| Beds | 159 (2022) | ||||||||||
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| Helipad | Formerly | ||||||||||
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| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 1863 | ||||||||||
| Closed | August 31, 2024 | ||||||||||
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| Website | www | ||||||||||
| Lists | Hospitals in Massachusetts | ||||||||||
Carney Hospital was a smallfor-profitcommunityteaching hospital located in theDorchester neighborhood ofBoston, Massachusetts.[1] It was owned and operated byDallas-basedSteward Health Care.[1]
The hospital had its beginnings in 1863 inSouth Boston. It was the firstCatholic hospital inNew England.[2] Among its first patients wereAmerican Civil War soldiers.[citation needed] In 1892 a Carney Hospital team performed the firstabdominal surgery inBoston.[3]
In 2022, Carney Hospital was licensed for 159 beds, 91 of which were staffed, and discharged 3,119inpatients. It operated with totalrevenues of $98 million, and with adeficit of $22.6 million.[1]
Carney Hospital was established in 1863 inSouth Boston byAndrew Carney with a $75,000 donation and with SisterAnn Alexis Shorb, Carney's choice for its first administrator and a member of theDaughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul. It was located on the former Hall Jackson Howe estate on Old Harbor Street onTelegraph Hill. The hospital's main building was designed by architectCharles J. Bateman and completed in 1891.[3]
The 40-bed hospital was the firstCatholic hospital inNew England.[2] In 1877, the first outpatient department in Boston was established by the hospital in two adjacent houses, followed by the first skin clinic in Boston in 1891.[2] The first abdominal surgery in USA was carried out in the hospital byJohn Homans in 1882.[5] The same year, the firstovariectomy in Boston was carried out in Carney byHenry I. Bowditch.[5] The first Catholic nursing school in New England was opened in 1892.[2]
In 1920 the hospital introduced itsResidency training programs. In 1950 the first plastic hip operation in theUnited States was performed by Dr.W.R. MacAusland at Carney Hospital.[2][5] In 1953, the hospital moved from South Boston to its present location inDorchester. The hospital became one of the first in USA to establish community health centers in 1973. Next year, Carney Hospital provided the first medical emergency rooftop helistop in Massachusetts.[2] The hospital celebrated 125 years of service in 1988.[6] After several months of deliberations,[7] In 1997 the hospital became a member of the non-profitCaritas Christi Health Care group, the second largest health care system in New England, and was christened "Caritas Carney Hospital."[2] Caritas Christi was purchased in 2010 byCerberus Capital Management to createSteward Health Care System, marking the system's transition from non-profit to for-profit.[8]
On May 6, 2024, Steward Health Care filed forChapter 11 bankruptcy protection, raising uncertainty for Carney Hospital's future.[9][10][11] Over the next several months, Steward began searching for potential buyers for all of its hospitals across the country through court-guided auctions. Despite reports from state government that Steward had received bids for all of its hospitals in Massachusetts,[12] the system reported in late July that Carney Hospital, along withNashoba Valley Medical Center inAyer, would close on or around August 31 having received no "qualified bids."[13] This was met with resistance by the public and government officials who planned to fight the hospital's closure, with emphasis specifically on the planned closure date being at odds with state requirements of 120 days' notice of any cessation of essential health services.[14] However, on August 1, a Texas bankruptcy judge approved for the closure of Carney Hospital and Nashoba Valley Medical Center.[15]
Ultimately, Carney Hospital closed its doors on the morning of August 31, 2024.[16][17][18][19]
Carney Hospital is mentioned inPhilip Roth's alternative history novelThe Plot Against America. While speaking to a crowd "at South Boston's busy Perkins Square," journalist Walter Winchell narrowly survives an assassination attempt and is "driven to Carney Hospital on Telegraph Hill," where he is treated "for facial wounds and minor burns."
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