Carney Hospital | |
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Steward Health Care System | |
Geography | |
Location | Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
Organization | |
Care system | Private |
Funding | For-profit hospital |
Type | Teaching |
Affiliated university | Tufts University School of Medicine |
Services | |
Emergency department | Yes |
Beds | 159 (2022) |
Helipad | Formerly |
Public transit access | Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority |
Links | |
Website | www |
Lists | Hospitals in Massachusetts |
Carney Hospital is a small for-profit community teaching hospital located in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. [1] It is owned and operated by Dallas-based Steward Health Care. [1]
The hospital had its beginnings in 1863 in South Boston. It was the first Catholic hospital in New England. [2] Among its first patients were American Civil War soldiers.[ citation needed ] In 1892 a Carney Hospital team performed the first abdominal surgery in Boston. [3]
In 2022, Carney Hospital was licensed for 159 beds, 91 of which were staffed, and discharged 3,119 inpatients. It operated with total revenues of $98 million, and with a deficit of $22.6 million. [1]
Carney Hospital was established in 1863 in South Boston by Andrew Carney with a $75,000 donation and with Sister Ann Alexis Shorb, Carney's choice for its first administrator and a member of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul. It was located on the former Hall Jackson Howe estate on Old Harbor Street on Telegraph Hill. The hospital's main building was designed by architect Charles J. Bateman and completed in 1891. [3]
The 40-bed hospital was the first Catholic hospital in New 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 by John Homans in 1882. [5] The same year, the first ovariectomy in Boston was carried out in Carney by Henry I. Bowditch. [5] The first Catholic nursing school in New England was opened in 1892. [2]
In 1920 the hospital introduced its Residency training programs. In 1950 the first plastic hip operation in the United 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 in Dorchester. 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-profit Caritas 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 by Cerberus Capital Management to create Steward Health Care System, marking the system's transition from non-profit to for-profit. [8]
On May 5, 2024, The Wall Street Journal reported that Steward Health Care was expected to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection within the coming days, blaming rising costs, insufficient revenue and cash crunches as part of the decision. Steward's bankruptcy is set to be one of the largest hospital bankruptcies in U.S. history, and the largest one in decades. [9] The next day, Steward announced that it had indeed filed voluntarily for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company stressed that its hospitals and medical offices would remain open during the proceedings. In its press release, Steward stated it was finalizing terms of a $75 million in new debtor-in-possession financing from MPT, with the possibility for $225 million more if it meets certain unspecified conditions set by MPT. The company's filing papers list that more than 30 of its creditors owe about $500 million, and the U.S. government is owed $32 million to the federal government in "reimbursements for insurance overpayments". [10] [11]
Carney Hospital is mentioned in Philip Roth's alternative history novel The 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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