MANHATTAN (VINnews) — A post on social media describes a heartbreaking situation, in which the family of an Orthodox Jewish patient at Mt. Sinai hospital is being denied visitation access. In addition, the police were called to drag away the patient’s daughters, as they begged hospital employees for help.
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According to Meyer Tauber, a friend of the family, the patient is cognitively impaired and on a respirator. They are confused, frightened, and alone, yet the hospital is refusing to allow any relatives in to comfort them and monitor their care.
It appears the hospital is saying that Covid restrictions are the basis for the denial of access to visitors.
Mr. Tauber posted, “Just hung up the phone with a distraught and horrified family member who has a cognitively impaired parent at Mount Sinai Health System, I’m in tears. The family of the cognitively impaired patient at Mount Sinai Health System have been pleading with the hospital leadership…for over a week to allow them to simply be at their parents bedside….Their pleas, though, have fallen on deaf ears, and despite the clear guidelines issued by the New York State Department of Health, they were denied bedside access.”
He went on to say that the family became so desperate, they arranged a transfer to the Cleveland Clinic, yet the hospital “sabotaged” the effort.
The post said, “Feeling like there was no choice, the family got approval from Cleveland Clinic to initiate a transfer, but their transfer request was sabotaged by Dr Adel Bassily-Marcus at Mount Sinai Health System.”
It continued, “On Saturday, after 24 hours had passed that the hospital had neglected to perform the patient’s desperately-needed dialysis session, the two young daughters respectfully implored hospital personnel to help them meet their patients needs. To their shock and dismay, the nurses summoned the police who dragged out the two daughters from the hospital building in a very rough manner.”
Emergency: The @NYSenate health committee must step in and start demanding answers regarding @MountSinaiNYC behavior here and in many other cases. CC @NYSenatorRivera @senatorgallivan @SenatorMyrie @NYSenatorFelder. Original poster can be reached here @meyertauber… pic.twitter.com/IvSSbKXfu0
— Yosef H (@yossy770) January 17, 2023
Had similar problem years ago in another hospital. But by law next of kin has rights to transfer. Just get a lawyer now
They did something similar to us. They murdered my father in there. They lied every time he was hospitalized that he had covid and left him in a dark and hot room for days without food or the proper care. We had many jewish organizations fighting for him and to get him transferred out but it was too late.
Was the hospital asked to comment on these allegations?
Yup please explain why no visitors to 12 PM due to covid? Covid stops at 12 PM?
And why is it so hard to transfer a patient if the family so wishes? The hopsitals own us?
that hospital is horrible. stay away from there, we had bad experience with them too
Repeat of 2020 where they let hospitals become killing fields. Without vistation, there’s hardly any oversight advocating for the patient. Avoid such hospitals at all costs.
Typical of Mount Sinai. They have always been holier than thou, and thus continue to maintain that they and only they no how and when to treat a patient. The idea that Manhattan hospitals are best and care more is and has always been based on chashivus of being in Manhattan. Nothing more and nothing less.
I’d like to know the entire story.
Something is missing here. Mt. Sinai allows visitors.
Why were they specifically not allowed in?
Typical of mount sinai. The community at large has to stop bowing down to the altar of elitist hospitals that don’t care about patients.
Ok.
Let’s hear the real story.
There are no longer Covid visitation restrictions at Sinai.
Maybe I am out of touch but I always thought many frum patients were treated at Mount Sinai. This doesn’t sound like the full story.
There is obviously more to the story.
The hospital is VERY limited in what they can say because of HIPPA.
And we should continue trusting the medical.care system….?!! Thos is in the patients best interest?!!
They will kill he parent, the same way they killed my Father in Law.
BTW FYI, in the height of Covid, Hospitals demanded Nusrses that test positive for Covid still report to work, I heard this from a nurse.
Where is Ezra?
So much for a “Jewish” hospital with a Jewish name. Where Jews are treated like trash even though most of those funds that started the hospital and continue to support it are from Jewish donors and many of its patients and medical professionals are Jewish. It’s like this in many other cities as well, not just New York. It looks like Jewish values are a thing of the past.
there’s more to this story…
no idea who’s right here, and I’m not at all claiming the hospital is right.. but from the story, the way it was presented you can clearly see something’s missing here
We are seeing only half or a third of the story
They need to be taken over by Maimonides.
Mount Sinai changing name to Mengel’s
הר סיני – שמשם ירדה שנאה לישראל
Get a good lawyer, on contingency, so no money up front and you’ll teach these BAXTARDS who LAUGHS LAST !!!
Lets NOT get carried away..I am sure there is another side to the story and lets wait for Mount Sinai to tell their side…We all should NOT forget the Chesed the hospital has extended to the Frum patients and Families with having their Bikur Cholim room and Shul open for us 24/7 and also all the heimishe volunteers operating in the Hospital….So lets hear what they say
Based on absolute fact, the source of which is first-hand and indisputable, Yidden should be aware and warned that all of these hospitals in today’s political climate and agendas , and certainly the likes of N.Y.C.’s Mt. Sinai ( and Maimonides as well ) are KILLING FIELDS.Gone are the times when doctors and hospitals were dedicated, more than less, to actually saving and restoring patients to good health and being commited to the ideal of life , at any cost. Today, not only is the practice of medicine defined by economics (not in our best interests !), but the word is – life is not only expendable, but the concept and philosophy of quality of life , to be defined by these degenerate, woke, liberal ,progressives , who make up MOST of the medical community , especially in the big city hospitals, leave us in mortal danger . It is often their psak that has the authority to decide life or death – and we are horrifically at their mercy. Hashem yeracheim !!!
This story is not accurate. I NEED to hear the hospital side of this one! None of this makes any sense. This doctor could have a slander suit against this family if they are not careful
Can it be that horrors like this began as intended consequences of Obama-care (sic)?
More to this story – if you think they disallowed visitors for no reaso,n I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell yo. Why doesn’t this guy who wrote the blog say what the hospitals position are and let the rest of us judge if it is fair. So far we don’t get the highest marks when dealing with the goyim. Ha’maven Yovin
The gang of machers who attack Maimonides are now attacking Mt Sinai too. Tauber is probably a hired tummeler. Who knows what the truth is….. Don’t believe this version.
The article does not say whether the patient has Covid, and what the rules are for that.
I’m sure our dear hardworking, dedicated and community askanim will take care of this
The hosp gets paid for each “covid patient” that dies! It’s blatant MURDER!
They were probably trying to pull some “Shtik” & got caught & are deflecting by blaming the hospital.
There is somebody Rabbi Haager who persuades everyone to go to that hospital. He works there.
so it is no place for jews in ny? only to move to Cleveland
Jews in Europe prior to the holocaust also misjudged what their gentile neighbours thought of them.
If these Hasidics don’t like the existing hospitals, let them open up their own.