Healey signs bill allowing state to take Norwood Hospital through eminent domain

Дата публикации: 10-08-2026 00:03:28

The measure seeks to facilitate the completion of construction on the hospital that was damaged by devastating floods in 2020.
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Local News The measure seeks to facilitate the completion of construction on the hospital that was damaged by devastating floods in 2020. The construction site at the former Norwood Hospital pictured in September 2024. Construction on the hospital has remained stalled. David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe

Gov. Maura Healey has signed a bill into law that would allow her administration to seize Norwood Hospital and transfer or lease it to a qualified nonprofit entity, following more than six years of the hospital sitting vacant.

Beginning Nov. 1, the law authorizes the state Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance (DCAMM) to take the 11-acre property from its owner, Medical Properties Trust, Inc., an Alabama-based real estate investment trust, through the process of eminent domain. 

The property could then be transferred or leased to a “qualified nonprofit entity for the purposes of a health care facility,” the legislation states. The measure could also facilitate the completion of construction on the unfinished hospital. 

The bill was approved by the Senate on July 29, followed by the House enacting it July 31. 

Norwood Hospital has been closed since June 2020, after a devastating flood forced 90 people to evacuate and destroyed the facility’s electrical room.

In October 2024, Steward Health Care, a for-profit national chain that operated Norwood Hospital, filed for bankruptcy. Construction on the replacement hospital had stopped earlier that year when payments from Steward ended, and the unfinished structure has been sitting idle since. 

“The Norwood community has been deeply impacted by the closure and stalled construction of Norwood Hospital, which is the direct result of the greed and mismanagement of Steward Health Care and Ralph de la Torre [CEO of Steward Health Care],” Healey said in a press release Friday. 

“We need MPT to do the right thing and come to a reasonable agreement with a qualified operator who can rebuild the hospital,” Healey continued. “Our administration will be closely following their progress and will be prepared to act if MPT does not follow through.”

A spokesperson for MPT referred comment on the bill to a fact sheet published on the company’s website. In the document, MPT said it has invested more than $350 million in rebuilding the hospital and argued that it did not abandon the construction project; the sheet does not mention the property seizure.

The spokesperson said the company had no further comment “beyond the materials on its website.” 

“The fastest and least costly way to reopen Norwood Hospital is to let MPT finish construction of the facility and find a qualified operator,” the document states. “The Commonwealth of Massachusetts should work collaboratively with MPT to ensure the chosen operator receives the determination of need (DoN) necessary to sustain operations at Norwood.”

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