Struggling NYC hospital pays brass fat salaries despite staffing, money woesBy Carl Campanile
February 27, 2022
Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn — which is hemorrhaging tens of millions of dollars and facing complaints of severe understaffing and a decline in care — is paying its CEO and five other top medical brass seven-figure salaries, The Post has learned.
Maimonides’ CEO Kenneth Gibbs saw his compensation skyrocket from $1.8 million to $3.2 million from 2019 to 2020, when the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic rocked the facility, according to not-for-profit financial records filed with the IRS.
Sources also questioned Gibbs’ presence at the hospital during the pandemic — he was recorded as voting absentee from his residence in Old Chatham, NY in the upstate Berkshires in November 2020, not from his Central Park West apartment.
Meanwhile, Jacob Shani, chief of heart surgery received $3.5 million; Patrick Borgen, department of surgery, $2 million; Greg Ribakove, chair of cardiothoracic surgery, $1.8 million; Robert Frankel, director of interventional cardiology, $1.7 million; and Alex Shaknovich, cardiologist, $1.7 million, records show.
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https://nypost.com/2022/02/27/struggling-nyc-hospital-pays-fat-salaries-despite-staffing-problems/
