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HOSPITAL TO GET NEW BOARD, NAME UNDER PLAN. ATTORNEY
GENERAL TO HOLD HEARING APRIL 30 ON TAKEOVER BID
By Emily Sweeney, Globe Staff Correspondent Date: 04/11/2002,
Page: 1 Section: Globe West
Deaconess-Waltham Hospital will be led by a newly appointed board
of trustees and its name will be changed, if everything goes according
to a coalition's plan to save the cash-strapped institution.
Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly has called a public hearing for
April 30 on the proposed transaction, involving the Coalition to Save
Waltham Hospital, CareGroup Healthcare System, and Boulder Capital,
a real estate firm headed by Roy S. MacDowell Jr.
CareGroup reached an agreement with the coalition to keep the hospital
open until May 31 in return for $8.5 million from MacDowell, who plans
to build apartments on a parking lot adjacent to the hospital. MacDowell
is seeking zoning changes for the hospital-owned property from city
officials in order to proceed. Any changes to the hospital's name
or administration would take effect after CareGroup transfers ownership
to the Coalition to Save Waltham Hospital on June 1.
The April 30 hearing at Kennedy Middle School at 6 p.m. will include
a presentation on the deal, testimony from local officials, and questions
from the public.
If CareGroup turns the hospital over, the medical facility would drop
"Deaconess" and reclaim its former name as Waltham Hospital.
Anthony Mangini, a former trustee of Deaconess-Waltham Hospital, would
be chairman of the board; Bentley College president Joseph Marone
would serve as vice chairman; current Deaconess-Waltham administrator
Dawn Gideon would be president; Bentley College treasurer Paul Clemente
would be treasurer; and Regina Strazzulla Rockefeller, an attorney
specializing in health care, would be clerk.
The following people were named to be trustees: Chart Bank president
Richard Bolten; retired wholesaler and retailer Frederick Brasco;
biotechnology research physician Dr. Stephen Burke; pediatric dentist
Dr. John Caravalos; Flora D'Angio, manager of Gardencrest apartment
complex; Massachusetts District Court judge Gregory Flynn; Ruth Gately,
director of Waltham's Council on Aging; funeral director Francis Joyce;
Dr. Richard Lyons; Joseph C. Maher Jr., chief operating officer of
Healthcare Services of New England; Dr. William Mulroy, president
of Deaconess-Waltham medical staff; Dr. Mohammed Reda, primary care
physician and pulmonologist; Alan Sager, professor at Boston University's
School of Public Health; Femi T. Shote, founder of Asset Harvest Group
of Waltham; Stephen Zieff, real estate developer; and a representative
from Tufts-New England Medical Center, who has not yet been named.
Mangini also said community representatives would be recruited from
Waltham and neighboring towns to volunteer and report to the board
of trustees.
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