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Kingsbridge Heights Rehabilitation Care Center Faces State Probes

ALBANY - A troubled Bronx nursing home and its operator are the targets of a three-pronged investigation by the state attorney general’s office, the Daily News has learned.

“There appear to be an array of violations in different areas that are not typical,” a knowledgeable source said.

Investigators are probing whether Kingsbridge Heights Rehabilitation Care Center committed Medicaid fraud by paying an employee at a nearby hospital to refer long-term patients to the facility, the source said.

Federal law prohibits such payments.

A second aspect is a result of a recent criminal referral from the state Workers’ Compensation Board, which claims the nursing home has not had workers’ compensation insurance to cover its employees in 13 months, the source said.

The Workers’ Compensation Board last Friday issued a stop-work order that would close the home unless it proves by Monday that it has coverage and pays the board $38,000 in fines.

Meanwhile, the source said the state attorney general’s charities bureau has been looking into questionable loans made by two registered charities - the Chaya Foundation and the CLF Foundation - run by Kingsbridge Heights owner Helen Sieger.

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Fordham University and New York Botanical Garden Form Acadmic Deal 

Hey, waitaminute!

Was that Fordham University and the New York Botanical Garden holding a love fest this week?

After all those years of bitter feuding over a gangly Erector set-like campus radio station transmission tower looming over the garden, a whole new period of peace and love seems to have sprouted.

In the latest embrace, officials from the two Bronx institutions signed an agreement Wednesday to cross-pollinate academic programs.

A joint graduate program will permit students to receive a master’s degree or doctorate from Fordham, “drawing upon the intellectual and physical resources of both the university and NYBG,” they said in a statement.

Garden President and CEO Gregory Long, who pointed out the two institutions have been “next door neighbors” for 115 years, joined Fordham President, the Rev. Joseph McShane, to officially ink the deal.

“There has never been a moment in American history when education, and research and concern for the biodiversity of the world, have been more important,” said Long.

McShane called it “a momentous occasion that links us, two institutions that reach across Southern Boulevard, to work together for the common good.”

Things were not always so rosy between the two neighbors.

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