If the sale of the LRGHealthcare hospitals to Concord Hospital were to fall through, Lakes Region General Hospital and Franklin Hospital could close within two months, a hospital official said during a Department of Justice hearing on Tuesday.
LRGHealthcare CEO Kevin Donovan said there was not really another option to keep the financially troubled hospitals open.
As women have left the U.S. workforce in droves, in what some economists have deemed the first female recession, calls for structural changes to support them are growing louder.
The closure of virtually all Massachusetts state waters to commercial lobstering will commence on March 5 and run at least until May 1 as the central element in the state’s enhanced protection measures for North Atlantic right whales.
