{{Short description|Healthcare service provider and medical facility manager}} {{use mdy dates|date=November 2020}} {{use American English|date=November 2020}} '''MediSys Health Network''' is a 1995-established healthcare service provider<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/0221842D:US |title=Medisys Health Network Inc|website=Bloomberg News }}</ref> that also manages medical facilities. It is best known for operating Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center<ref name=MediSys.ProbeWSJ2010>{{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}}</ref> (for 12 years),<ref name=Brookdale.OurPress>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> Jamaica Hospital Medical Center,<ref>{{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}}</ref> and Flushing Hospital.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
''MediSys'' also operates a network of family health care clinics and home health agencies.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-profiles.medisys_health_network_inc.76b63e7232419f00b2d142c5d88e20f8.html |title=Medisys Health Network Inc.}}</ref>
==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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> This success was followed by a similar takeover in 2002.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> The nursing home "is named for and was financed by President Trump's mother."<ref>{{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}}</ref> Mrs. Trump's family wrote that "contributions in memory of" her late husband "may be made to the Trump Pavilion."<ref>{{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}}</ref>
==Controversy== ''MediSys'' was investigated in 2010 regarding conflict of interest.<ref name=MediSys.ProbeWSJ2010/> In 2012, they were forced to drop their ownership/management of ''Brookdale''.<ref name=Brookdale.NYT2011/><ref name=Brookdale.OurPress/> following Medisys's CEO and others having pleaded guilty to Federal charges. Money problems created friction between nurses and a facility managed by ''MediSys''.<ref name=Brookdale.NYT2011>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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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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