Steward Health Care System LLC: identity and registrations

analysisSteward Health Care System LLC is a Delaware limited liability company. The Delaware Secretary of State certified on April 3, 2017 that it was duly formed and in good standing under file number 4801236, and its Global LEI System record, LEI 549300HE8N6WUF4Q0O92, gives a creation date of March 18, 2010 with the same registration number, a legal address care of The Corporation Trust Company in Wilmington, Delaware, and full corroboration. The LEI was first registered on May 6, 2013, but its registration has been lapsed since the renewal due on May 6, 2014; the record was last updated on August 7, 2026. The debtors' July 2025 complaint describes Steward Health Care Holdings LLC as a Delaware limited liability company and Steward Health Care Network, Inc. as a Delaware corporation. ^{1 2 3}

analysisIts federal employer identification number, 27-2473240, appears in its May 6, 2024 Chapter 11 petition, in the Florida registry and in its July 15, 2022 notice to the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission about the planned sale of its Medicare value-based care business to CareMax, Inc. The petition, which lists no other names used in the previous eight years, gives its business as a health care business with NAICS code 6211 (offices of physicians) and its website as steward.org, and estimates the consolidated assets and liabilities each at $1,000,000,001 to $10 billion, with more than 100,000 creditors. ^{4 5 6}

analysisFlorida registry filings trace the principal office: 111 Huntington Avenue, Suite 1800, Boston in the 2018 annual report; 1900 N. Pearl Street, Suite 2400, Dallas from the 2019 report, the address later given in the bankruptcy petition; and 2811 McKinney Ave, Dallas from May 1, 2025. A research institute's timeline dates the move of the corporate headquarters from Boston to Dallas to August 2018. ^{7 5 8 9}

analysisThe company has described itself in different terms over time: in its audited 2020 statements as the largest private, for-profit, physician-owned healthcare network in the United States, whose Steward Hospital Management Company managed 35 acute care hospital campuses, two rehabilitation facilities and one behavioral health campus at December 31, 2020; and in its July 2022 notice to the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission as the largest physician-led health care network, with 39 community hospitals in nine states. ^{10 6}

analysisSteward Health Care System LLC registered in Florida as a foreign limited liability company on April 12, 2017 (document number M17000003154) and filed annual reports through 2025; the registry lists it as inactive after a 'revoked for annual report' event filed on September 25, 2026. Steward Florida Holdings LLC (document number M17000001741, FEI/EIN 81-5437399), registered on March 1, 2017, shows the same revocation, a principal address on N. Pearl Street in Dallas and a Boston mailing address both changed on May 1, 2025, and John R. Castellano, Chief Restructuring Officer, as authorized person. ^{1 2 3}

analysisSteward Melbourne Hospital, Inc. (F17000000708, FEI/EIN 81-5354550), filed on February 14, 2017 with a name change on March 1, 2017, is likewise inactive after a revocation on September 25, 2026, with John Castellano as officer. Registry search lists show 'INACT/UA' status for Steward Rockledge Hospital, Inc. (F17000000942) and Steward Sebastian River Medical Center, Inc. (F17000000944); for the companies that held the Miami hospitals, Steward CGH, Inc. (F21000001620), Steward FMC, Inc. (F21000001628), Steward HH, Inc. (F21000001619), Steward NSMC, Inc. (F21000001618) and Steward PGH, Inc. (F21000001629); and for Steward Health Care Network, Inc. (F17000001773) and Steward Emergency Physicians, Inc. (F17000004231). ^{4 5 6 7 2}

analysisIn a March 26, 2024 notice to the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission, Steward Operations Holdings LLC (a Delaware company with federal tax ID 27-2490041, based at 1900 N. Pearl Street in Dallas) stated that Steward Health Care System, LLC was its sole member and that it was the sole stockholder of Stewardship Health, Inc., the sole corporate member of Stewardship Health Medical Group, Inc. and sole stockholder of Steward Health Care Network, Inc. ¹

analysisThe CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System lists NPI 1376115675 for Steward Medical Group, Inc. (other name 'Steward Primary Care Doral') as an active organization record enumerated on July 15, 2021, with Amy Marie Guay, President of Steward Medical Group, as authorized official; the registry notes that an NPI does not validate licensing or credentialing. The Medical Center of Southeast Texas, LP, a Delaware limited partnership formed in 2003 as Southeast Texas Hospital, LP, gave employer identification number 27-0060569 in its 2003 annual report, which named IASIS Healthcare Holdings, Inc. as its general partner with about 1%; an organization subpart of the partnership holds NPI 1114006749 for a rehabilitation unit in Port Arthur, Texas. ^{2 3 4}