MediSys Health Network

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

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

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.[8] This success was followed by a similar takeover in 2002.[9]

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.[10] The nursing home "is named for and was financed by President Trump's mother."[11] Mrs. Trump's family wrote that "contributions in memory of" her late husband "may be made to the Trump Pavilion."[12]

Controversy

MediSys was investigated in 2010 regarding conflict of interest.[2] In 2012, they were forced to drop their ownership/management of Brookdale.[13][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.[13][14]

References
  1. "Medisys Health Network Inc". Bloomberg News.
  2. "Health Department Asks for Probe of Medisys". Wall Street Journal. June 24, 2010.
  3. "MediSys Out! Brookdale Hospital under Transitional Management". Our Time Press. September 22, 2012. Retrieved November 22, 2020.
  4. "It's official: Brookdale and Medisys split". Crain's New York Business. September 5, 2012.
  5. "MediSys Health Network". New York State Department of Health.
  6. "Six city hosps in critical condition". The New York Post. September 5, 2011.
  7. "Medisys Health Network Inc".
  8. Clifford J. Levy (May 4, 2001). "Change in Operators Ordered For Troubled Mental Facility". The New York Times.
  9. Clifford J. Levy (June 12, 2002). "State Will Create Office to Investigate Homes for the Mentally Ill". The New York Times.
  10. Mary Pilon (June 14, 2017). "Life at Trump Pavilion". The New Republic.
  11. "The Trump Family's 'Faux Charity'". The New York Times. November 12, 2019.
  12. "Trump, Fred C." The New York Times. June 29, 1999.
  13. Anahad O’Connor (May 26, 2011). "Brookdale Hospital Workers Protest Loss of Health Care". The New York Times.
  14. "Nurses at Flushing Hospital Medical Center vote to strike if a deal isn't struck". New York Daily News. January 23, 2012. if progress isn't made in restoring their health and pension benefits.


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