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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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