July 02, 2017
Bronx-Lebanon Hospital previously scandal plagued
Jack Kemp
This July 4th celebrate that you are far removed from Bronx-Lebanon Hospital.
http://nypost.com/2017/07/01/corruption-ran-rampant-at-bronx-hospital-before-shooting/
Corruption ran rampant at Bronx hospital before shooting
By Melissa Klein
July 1, 2017
It’s New York’s sickest hospital.
Long before a deranged doctor opened fire inside Bronx-Lebanon Hospital, the place was under an ongoing federal corruption probe, mobsters controlled the construction of its new outpatient center, executives were enjoying million-dollar pay packages and fat bonuses, doctors were allegedly offered per-patient bounties to drum up clinic business, and whistleblowing staffers sounded the alarm about poor patient care but were ignored.
Friday’s bloodbath was the latest black mark on a sprawling medical center that mainly cares for the poor and receives most of its funding from taxpayers in the form of state Medicaid.
Even its hiring of Dr. Henry Bello, the former resident who returned to Bronx-Lebanon on Friday to gun down the people who had once been his colleagues, is being held up at the latest — and most tragic — example of questionable recruitment. Bello, 45, had a criminal conviction for a 2004 sex attack on a 23-year-old.
Bronx-Lebanon has been headed for decades by Miguel Fuentes, who some describe as an imperious CEO who rarely leaves his office at the hospital’s Fulton Avenue campus to visit the main hospital facility on the Grand Concourse. When he does travel, he has a hospital-funded car and driver.
"This isn’t the Mayo Clinic,†one hospital observer bitterly noted.
Read the full article.
This July 4th celebrate that you are far removed from Bronx-Lebanon Hospital.
http://nypost.com/2017/07/01/corruption-ran-rampant-at-bronx-hospital-before-shooting/
Corruption ran rampant at Bronx hospital before shooting
By Melissa Klein
July 1, 2017
It’s New York’s sickest hospital.
Long before a deranged doctor opened fire inside Bronx-Lebanon Hospital, the place was under an ongoing federal corruption probe, mobsters controlled the construction of its new outpatient center, executives were enjoying million-dollar pay packages and fat bonuses, doctors were allegedly offered per-patient bounties to drum up clinic business, and whistleblowing staffers sounded the alarm about poor patient care but were ignored.
Friday’s bloodbath was the latest black mark on a sprawling medical center that mainly cares for the poor and receives most of its funding from taxpayers in the form of state Medicaid.
Even its hiring of Dr. Henry Bello, the former resident who returned to Bronx-Lebanon on Friday to gun down the people who had once been his colleagues, is being held up at the latest — and most tragic — example of questionable recruitment. Bello, 45, had a criminal conviction for a 2004 sex attack on a 23-year-old.
Bronx-Lebanon has been headed for decades by Miguel Fuentes, who some describe as an imperious CEO who rarely leaves his office at the hospital’s Fulton Avenue campus to visit the main hospital facility on the Grand Concourse. When he does travel, he has a hospital-funded car and driver.
"This isn’t the Mayo Clinic,†one hospital observer bitterly noted.
Read the full article.
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