new parents Beyonce Knowles-Carter and Jay-Z after they caught heat
for allegedly paying over a million dollars to sanction off a hospital
last weekend.
In Bloomberg's eyes, if the million dollar story proves to be true, it
could ultimately help patients in the long run.
"Let's step back a little bit here. If [the hospital] got paid a lot
of money and it let them provide services to other people who don't
have insurance or can't afford it, I'm not so sure it's a bad thing.
Full-paying patients are very valuable to hospitals in this day and
age. ...it's been an awful long time since I've been in a maternity
ward. I don't think I'm the person that can tell you what goes on in
this day and age. I don't think you should keep people from seeing
their babies, or whatever, but have different services for people are
full-paying patients. It's easy to go and criticize, but somebody's
got to pay." (Perezitos)
In light of the recent controversy, Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital
executive director Frank Danza came forward to kill the hype.
"Lenox Hill Hospital and its staff were delighted to welcome the
Carter family for the birth of their firstborn on Saturday evening,
but we are troubled by the misinformation being circulated in some
news media reports. The suggestion that the couple paid $1.3 million
to rent an entire maternity floor is simply not true. The family is
housed in an executive suite at the hospital and is being billed the
standard rate for those accommodations. Our executive suites are
available for any patient, including the food service and amenities
provided to the Carter family." (Statement)
Another hospital spokesman denied reports this week claiming other
patients were mistreated in light of Jay and Bey presence.
New York health officials have reviewed and dismissed complaints
patients in a hospital neonatal unit were mistreated while Beyonce was
giving birth there to her and Jay-Z's daughter. Health department
spokesman Jeffrey Gordon says they received two complaints about
Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital. He says both were dismissed by
Wednesday night. Beyonce gave birth to the couple's daughter, Blue Ivy
Carter, on Saturday. (Billboard)
Following Blue Ivy Carter's birth, the hospital was blamed over
allegedly restricting a couple from seeing their newborn daughters.
Neil Coulon, 38, of Brooklyn said the stress of his wife delivering
two premature girls was tripled by Beyoncé's bodyguards treating Lenox
Hill Hospital like an exclusive nightclub. Coulon griped that he's
been repeatedly barred from the sixth-floor neonatal intensive care
unit, once for 20 minutes, by the superstar couple's private security.
He said bodyguards wearing headsets even cleared the sixth floor
waiting room, booting his relatives out. "Three times they stopped me
from entering or exiting the NICU (Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit) and
it happened once on Friday -- just because they wanted to use the
hallway," said Coulon, a contractor from Bedford-Stuyvesant. (New York
Daily News)
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