Priyanka Dayal McCluskey

Senior Health Reporter

Priyanka Dayal McCluskey is a senior health reporter for WBUR.

Before joining WBUR in 2022, she was a health care reporter at The Boston Globe. She previously worked as a reporter at the Boston Herald and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette.

Priyanka has degrees in journalism and political science from Boston University.

Recently published

St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, a Steward hospital in Brighton, Mass. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Healey: State to take control of St. Elizabeth's, tentative deals reached for other Steward hospitals

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey says the state will to take over bankrupt Steward Health Care's St. Elizabeth's Medical Center by eminent domain, and facilitate the transition of the hospital to...

'Our patients need us': Employees, residents plead for Carney Hospital to be saved

Hundreds of health care workers, patients and community members gathered Tuesday night to demand that state officials take action to save Carney Hospital, a fixture in Boston for over a...

'There’s some relief': Medical workers cheer reopening of Brockton hospital after fire

Eighteen months after a 10-alarm fire shut down operations, Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital is set to reopen its doors on Tuesday. The reopening is expected to ease heavy patient loads...

A doctor shares experience of working at the soon-to-be-closed Carney Hospital

Negotiations continued Tuesday in bankruptcy court on the pending sale of five Steward Health Care hospitals. At the same time, many are rallying against the presumed closure of two of...

Steward closing in on deals to sell 5 Mass. hospitals

An attorney for Steward Health Care said Tuesday the company has made "significant progress" on deals to sell five Massachusetts hospitals, which would allow them to remain open under new...

A Michigan company wanted to buy all of Steward's Mass. hospitals. Steward said no

A Michigan-based, for-profit health care company that specializes in distressed hospitals made a bid to buy all of Steward’s Massachusetts hospitals out of bankruptcy, but the bid was rejected as...

Judge approves Carney, Nashoba Valley closures as Steward crisis deepens

A federal judge on Wednesday cleared the way for Steward Health Care to close two Massachusetts hospitals, while the fate of the company’s other hospitals remains unsettled and Steward runs...

New mothers can 'fall through the cracks' in health care. Researchers suggest a different approach

Local medical researchers found scheduling appointments via texts nearly doubled the chances patients received primary care in the postpartum months. This helped stave off what experts call the "postpartum cliff,"...

Health

Jul 17, 2024

In this August 2009 photo, Ralph de la Torre, then-CEO of Caritas Christi, speaks at a meeting at Norwood Hospital. (John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Steward executives paid themselves millions before filing for bankruptcy

In the months before filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, as Steward Health Care struggled to pay its bills, the company gave million-dollar payouts to nearly 20 current and former executives,...

Health

Jul 12, 2024

Steward Health Care says it's under federal investigation

Steward Health Care, the bankrupt company that operates seven Massachusetts hospitals, confirmed Thursday that it is under federal investigation. News reports say the probe centers on alleged violations of the...

Health

Jul 11, 2024