Dr. Ralph de la Torre, a former cardiac surgeon who built and became the face of Steward Healthcare and its neglected hospital network, resigned from the company on Tuesday and will now become chairman of the board and chief executive officer. The company announced that it will not be holding a new position. said in a statement to Globe Saturday.
Mr. de la Torre’s affinity for luxury yachts and corporate jets has made him a symbol of greed in for-profit medicine, at a time when more and more patients have suffered this year from understaffing and critical supplies at Steward Hospital. It became. Mr. de la Torre is believed to own a majority stake in the private company, which was one of the largest private, for-profit health systems in the United States and is currently being dissolved in bankruptcy proceedings.
A Steward spokeswoman declined to say Saturday whether Mr. Delatorre would remain a majority shareholder in the company he helped found in Boston in 2010.
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