[1] A member of Steward Health Care, the hospital was evacuated and closed after a significant June 2020 rainstorm led to destructive flooding.

[2] While reconstruction was started to reopen the hospital, work halted in February 2024 amid reports of financial instability and unpaid bills across the Steward Health Care System.

[4] Sometime in that same decade, local German immigrant Anna Groote began taking patients into her family's home in the town's Germantown neighborhood.

[4] The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic hit the local immigrant population hard, and Groote's Wilson Street Hospital was forced to close.

[6] Around this time, demand for care at Willett's hospital surged,[6] necessitating the use of the town's civic association building to hold overflow patients.

Footage from security cameras later circulated showing flood waters breaching a door and surging through a first floor hallway.

[14] On May 5, 2024, The Wall Street Journal reported that Steward Health Care was expected to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection within the coming days, blaming rising costs, insufficient revenue and cash crunches as part of the decision.

[16][17][18] On February 1, 2025, the Town of Norwood announced that it was forming a "health care working group" in order to reopen the hospital.