Medicine:MediSys Health Network

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Short description: healthcare service provider and medical facility manager

MediSys Health Network is a 1995-established healthcare service provider[1] that also manages medical facilities. It is best known for operating Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center[2] (for 12 years),[3][4] Jamaica Hospital Medical Center,[5] and Flushing Hospital.[6]

MediSys also operates a network of family health care clinics and home health agencies.[7]

Overview

MediSys Health Network

In addition to running hospitals, clinics and home health agencies, MediSys has entered—with a partner, the area of organ-procurement.[8]

In 2001, MediSys was entrusted to take over operation of a facility for "350 people with mental illness" of whom 24 had been subjected to unnecessary but profitable surgeries.[9] This success was followed by a similar takeover in 2002.[10]

MediSys also operates Medisys Richmond Hill Family Center, an Urgent Care facility.

Trump Pavilion

MediSys operates "Trump Pavilion, a 228-bed nursing home located in the Jamaica Hospital Medical Center;" the latter is where Donald Trump was born.[11] The nursing home "is named for and was financed by President Trump's mother."[12] Mrs. Trump's family wrote that "contributions in memory of" her late husband "may be made to the Trump Pavilion."[13]

Controversy

MediSys was investigated in 2010 regarding conflict of interest.[2] In 2012, they were forced to drop their ownership/management of Brookdale.[14][3] following Medisys's CEO and others having pleaded guilty to Federal charges. Money problems created friction between nurses and a facility managed by MediSys.[14][15]

References

  1. "Medisys Health Network Inc". https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/0221842D:US. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Health Department Asks for Probe of Medisys". Wall Street Journal. June 24, 2010. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704629804575325393129714522. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 "MediSys Out! Brookdale Hospital under Transitional Management". Our Time Press. September 22, 2012. https://www.ourtimepress.com/medisys-out-brookdale-hospital-under-transitional-management. Retrieved November 22, 2020. 
  4. "It's official: Brookdale and Medisys split". Crain's New York Business. September 5, 2012. https://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20120905/PULSE/120909982/its-official-brookdale-and-medisys-split. 
  5. "MediSys Health Network". https://www.health.ny.gov/health_care/medicaid/redesign/sdh/tech/mcnamara.htm. 
  6. "Six city hosps in critical condition". The New York Post. September 5, 2011. https://nypost.com/2011/09/05/six-city-hosps-in-critical-condition/. 
  7. "Medisys Health Network Inc.". https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-profiles.medisys_health_network_inc.76b63e7232419f00b2d142c5d88e20f8.html. 
  8. "Exclusive: LiveOnNY, MediSys kick off new organ-procurement process". Crain's New York Business. September 15, 2020. https://www.newsbreak.com/new-york/new-york/news/2060951573828/exclusive-liveonny-medisys-kick-off-new-organ-procurement-process. 
  9. Clifford J. Levy (May 4, 2001). "Change in Operators Ordered For Troubled Mental Facility". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/04/nyregion/change-in-operators-ordered-for-troubled-mental-facility.html. 
  10. Clifford J. Levy (June 12, 2002). "State Will Create Office to Investigate Homes for the Mentally Ill". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/12/nyregion/state-will-create-office-to-investigate-homes-for-the-mentally-ill.html. 
  11. Mary Pilon (June 14, 2017). "Life at Trump Pavilion". The New Republic. https://newrepublic.com/article/142995/trump-pavilion-medicaid-budget-cuts. 
  12. "The Trump Family's 'Faux Charity'". The New York Times. November 12, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/12/opinion/letters/trump-charity.html. 
  13. "Trump, Fred C.". The New York Times. June 29, 1999. https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/29/classified/paid-notice-deaths-trump-fred-c.html. 
  14. 14.0 14.1 Anahad O’Connor (May 26, 2011). "Brookdale Hospital Workers Protest Loss of Health Care". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/nyregion/brookdale-hospital-workers-protest-loss-of-health-coverage.html. 
  15. "Nurses at Flushing Hospital Medical Center vote to strike if a deal isn't struck". New York Daily News. January 23, 2012. https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/nurses-flushing-hospital-medical-center-vote-strike-deal-isn-struck-benefits-article-1.1010623. "if progress isn't made in restoring their health and pension benefits." 

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