We want a better result: Local leaders promise to hold Steward accountable amid plans to close hospitals – Boston News, Weather, Sports [Video]

BOSTON (WHDH) – Elected officials promised to ensure continued access to health care and vowed to hold Steward Health Care accountable Monday after the company announced plans to close two hospitals in Massachusetts next month. 

Three days after Steward’s announcement, officials including Sen. Ed Markey, Rep. Stephen Lynch, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu gathered outside Carney Hospital in Dorchester alongside union leaders and other community members for Monday’s press conference.

“We are frustrated,” Wu said in her remarks. “And we are angry to be here today.”

Steward operates eight hospitals in Massachusetts. Mired in financial trouble, Steward declared bankruptcy earlier this year and said it would sell all its hospitals in the state. 

By Friday of last week, Steward said it was in active negotiations with potential buyers for six hospitals. Steward said it had not found qualified bids for Carney Hospital and Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer, though. As …