New York's craziest hospital: shooting, corruption, negligence

Photo: Bronx Lebanon Hospital

Long before the hospital in the Bronx area shooting occurredThis place was under the constant supervision of federal services. It was assumed that the hospital managers were involved in corruption schemes and illegal construction of an outpatient center. Patients often complained of poor care, but all their treatment was ignored.

The shooting that took place on Friday and killed at least two people was the last straw in the growing scandal around this medical center. It should be noted that the hospital mainly provided assistance to the poor and received most of the funding from taxpayers in the form of the state Medicaid program.

The shooter, a former 45-year-old therapist, Henry Bello, is also an example of how poorly they monitored the quality of service in the Bronk hospital.

In 2015, Bello retired from the hospital because he was accused of sexual harassment.

Prior to this incident, for several years he was an assistant to the odious director of the hospital, Miguel Fuentes. The feds blamed 67-year-old Fuentes for colluding with the New York mafia family Lucchese. Militiamen believe that the hospital management helped the mafia illegally receive at least $ 5 million of government money, presumably in exchange for kickbacks when building a new 9-floor hospital building.

According to the indictment, since 2009, the hospital paid the construction companies and family-controlled contractors $ 26 million for the out-patient department, but the actual amount of work was only $ 21 million. Construction companies associated with the mafia constantly overestimated the project cost, and also often “changed” already installed equipment without special need. As a result, the construction, which was supposed to end in 2011, lasted until 2014, and its cost far exceeded the estimate.

Newspaper source NY Post He said that the hospital management had never challenged the bills that the company issued. This is understandable, the amount of Fuentes bonuses for one year alone was $ 1,7 million.

Currently, the Lebanese hospital in the Bronx includes: a hospital for 642 sites, a 2 nursing home and a psychiatric ward.

The hospital ad said that more than 1 million people a year are treated here. However, as explained by the former head of the surgical department, John Cosgrove, doctors were encouraged to bring patients to the clinic.

The doctors were promised to pay extra $ 60 for each given patient. According to him, the payment of these premiums came from the state fund Medicaid. The doctors used this mechanism and purposely planned unnecessary visits in order to get as much bonus as possible.

Cosgrove also noted that the hospital’s management did not conduct staff screening. So, in 2008, Ira Kirshenbaum was hired as head of orthopedic surgery.

Soon a scandal erupted, as soon after taking office in the department, the 4 patient died in a short period. Sources of publications indicate that doctors under the leadership of Kirshenbaum rendered unqualified care, leading to death and injury.

The doctor, in turn, argued that the affected patients were in poor health and did not undergo surgery.

Later it became known that Kirshenbaum hired an orthopedic surgeon, Peter Lesniewski. In 2013, he was convicted of fraud on a large scale. He designed fake applications for disability. According to the investigation, the damage from his actions amounted to more than $ 1 billion.

Recall 30 Jun in the hospital Bronx lebanon hospital, located in the New York district of the Bronx, shooting occurred. A man armed with a rifle shot a woman on the 16 floor of the medical facility, and then committed suicide. The incident affected 5 people. Three of them are in serious condition with gunshot wounds.

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