MediSys Health Network
{{Short description|Healthcare service provider and medical facility manager}}
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MediSys Health Network is a 1995-established healthcare service provider{{cite web
|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/0221842D:US
|title=Medisys Health Network Inc|website=Bloomberg News }} that also manages medical facilities. It is best known for operating Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center{{cite news |newspaper=Wall Street Journal
|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704629804575325393129714522
|title=Health Department Asks for Probe of Medisys
|date=June 24, 2010}} (for 12 years),{{cite news |newspaper=Our Time Press
|url=https://www.ourtimepress.com/medisys-out-brookdale-hospital-under-transitional-management
|title=MediSys Out! Brookdale Hospital under Transitional Management
|date=September 22, 2012 |accessdate=November 22, 2020}}{{cite news |newspaper=Crain's New York Business
|url=https://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20120905/PULSE/120909982/its-official-brookdale-and-medisys-split
|title=It's official: Brookdale and Medisys split
|date=September 5, 2012}} Jamaica Hospital Medical Center,{{cite web
|url=https://www.health.ny.gov/health_care/medicaid/redesign/sdh/tech/mcnamara.htm
|title=MediSys Health Network
|website=New York State Department of Health}} and Flushing Hospital.{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Post
|url=https://nypost.com/2011/09/05/six-city-hosps-in-critical-condition/
|title=Six city hosps in critical condition
|date=September 5, 2011}}
MediSys also operates a network of family health care clinics and home health agencies.{{cite web
|url=https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-profiles.medisys_health_network_inc.76b63e7232419f00b2d142c5d88e20f8.html
|title=Medisys Health Network Inc.}}
Overview
In addition to running hospitals, clinics and home health agencies, MediSys has entered—with a partner, the area of organ-procurement.{{cn|date=August 2022}}
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.{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/04/nyregion/change-in-operators-ordered-for-troubled-mental-facility.html
|title=Change in Operators Ordered For Troubled Mental Facility
|author=Clifford J. Levy |date=May 4, 2001}} This success was followed by a similar takeover in 2002.{{cite news
|newspaper=The New York Times
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/12/nyregion/state-will-create-office-to-investigate-homes-for-the-mentally-ill.html
|title=State Will Create Office to Investigate Homes for the Mentally Ill
|author=Clifford J. Levy |date=June 12, 2002}}
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.{{cite magazine |magazine=The New Republic
|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/142995/trump-pavilion-medicaid-budget-cuts
|title=Life at Trump Pavilion
|author=Mary Pilon |date=June 14, 2017}} The nursing home "is named for and was financed by President Trump's mother."{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/12/opinion/letters/trump-charity.html
|title=The Trump Family's 'Faux Charity'
|date=November 12, 2019}} Mrs. Trump's family wrote that "contributions in memory of" her late husband "may be made to the Trump Pavilion."{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/29/classified/paid-notice-deaths-trump-fred-c.html
|title=Trump, Fred C. |date=June 29, 1999}}
Controversy
MediSys was investigated in 2010 regarding conflict of interest. In 2012, they were forced to drop their ownership/management of Brookdale. following Medisys's CEO and others having pleaded guilty to Federal charges. Money problems created friction between nurses and a facility managed by MediSys.{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/nyregion/brookdale-hospital-workers-protest-loss-of-health-coverage.html
|title=Brookdale Hospital Workers Protest Loss of Health Care
|author=Anahad O’Connor |date=May 26, 2011}}{{cite news |newspaper=New York Daily News
|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/nurses-flushing-hospital-medical-center-vote-strike-deal-isn-struck-benefits-article-1.1010623
|title=Nurses at Flushing Hospital Medical Center vote to strike if a deal isn't struck
|quote=if progress isn't made in restoring their health and pension benefits.
|date=January 23, 2012}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.MediSysHealth.org MediSys website]
Category:Medical and health organizations based in New York City
Category:American companies established in 1995
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