The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will vote next week on holding Ralph de la Torre, the CEO of embattled health care system Steward Health Care, in contempt for failing to comply with a subpoena to testify before the committee Thursday.
Chairman Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and ranking member Bill Cassidy, R-La., made the announcement Thursday after hearing from nurses at Steward Health Care hospitals, who detailed how alleged financial mismanagement led to patient safety issues and even death.
“Witnesses cannot disregard and evade a duly authorized subpoena,” Cassidy said at the hearing.
