CEO of hospital operator facing Senate scrutiny will step down following contempt resolution

Steward Health Care CEO Ralph de la Torre has overseen a web of immoderate 30 hospitals astir the country. The Texas-based company's troubled caller past has drawn scrutiny from elected officials successful New England, wherever immoderate of its hospitals are located.

The CEO of a infirmary relation that filed for bankruptcy extortion successful May volition measurement down aft failing to attest earlier a U.S. Senate panel.

Steward Health Care CEO Ralph de la Torre has overseen a web of immoderate 30 hospitals astir the country. The Texas-based company's troubled caller past has drawn scrutiny from elected officials successful New England, wherever immoderate of its hospitals are located.

A spokesperson for de la Torre said Saturday that helium "has amicably separated from Steward connected mutually agreeable terms" and "will proceed to beryllium a tireless advocator for the betterment of reimbursement rates for the underprivileged diligent population."

Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, who chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, said earlier this period that Congress "will clasp Dr. de la Torre accountable for his greed and for the harm helium has caused to hospitals and patients passim America."

De la Torre's resignation is effectual Oct. 1. The Senate approved a solution connected Wednesday that was intended to clasp him successful transgression contempt for failing to attest earlier a committee.

The Senate sheet has been looking into Steward's bankruptcy. De la Torre did not look earlier it contempt being issued a subpoena. The solution refers the substance to a national prosecutor.