Berger Unplugs, Then Flatlines Nine Hospitals

They tried to put the best face on it.

“When we started out, there were many skeptics who believed we had taken on an impossible task,” said Stephen Berger, the stern-faced chairman of the Commission on Health Care Facilities in the 21st Century, as he stood under a dripping-glass chandelier in one of the New Read More

Meet the Hospital Hatchet Man: Tough-Talkin’ Stephen Berger

Investment banker Stephen Berger was sitting in his office high above midtown Manhattan on a recent Wednesday afternoon, puffing on a fat brown stogie and painting a picture of impending doom for the state’s health-care system. “We’re driving along at 90 miles an hour on a curved road,” he said in his gravelly Lower East Read More

Meet the Hospital Hatchet Man: Tough-Talkin’ Stephen Berger

Investment banker Stephen Berger was sitting in his office high above midtown Manhattan on a recent Wednesday afternoon, puffing on a fat brown stogie and painting a picture of impending doom for the state’s health-care system. “We’re driving along at 90 miles an hour on a curved road,” he said in his gravelly Lower East Read More