Mayor Wu is urging the company that owns the Carney Hospital campus to reverse a decision to terminate lease agreements for doctors currently caring for patients in a medical office building behind the closed-down hospital on Dorchester Avenue.

In a letter sent on Tuesday (March 11) to Apollo Global Management and its lawyer, Wu and her top health official — Dr. Bisola Ojikutu— warned that the decision by an Apollo affiliate to order doctors to vacate the Seton Medical Building by May 22, 2025— breached a promise made to city officials that Apollo “would refrain from taking additional adverse actions that would cause further deterioration of the campus and buildings during this time.”

They added: “On behalf of the approximately 10,000 Dorchester area residents who are continuing to receive needed care in the [Seton], we ask that you reverse these misguided terminations immediately and we request a meeting with Apollo to discuss the matter within the week.”

The letter is the latest in a series of public statements on the Carney property from Wu, who has been adamant that the largely shuttered campus be re-used for health care purposes in the future. She and Gov. Healey set up a 33-member “working group” last fall that is expected to issue a series of recommendations this month about what should happen next at the Carney site.

Above: Seton Medical Building on the Carney campus as seen in August 2024. Seth Daniel photo

Wu and Ojikutu— who co-chairs the working group— note the group’s efforts in their letter to Apollo today.

The Reporter wrote last month that tenants in the 35,865-square-foot office building had received “lease termination” notices in the mail starting on Feb. 21— giving the more than two dozen physician practices roughly 90 days to find new office space. Those working in the building include doctors and staff who were displaced when the main Carney hospital building was closed last Aug. 31.

Not addressed in the mayor’s letter to Apollo is another wrinkle in the Carney story that The Reporter revealed last week: Apollo — through a subsidiary entity— has submitted a proposal to the city to build a new school building on the Carney site to house the Edward M. Kennedy Health Career Academy.

The proposal is one of five bids submitted to the city through a Request for Proposal process initiated last December. Four other sites from other proponents are also under consideration by the city for consideration, all of them in existing, underused office buildings in Boston. The Apollo-Carney proposal calls for the existing Carney buildings on the site to be razed to make room for a new high school.