The companies that own Hollywood Pavilion hospital, whose former CEO is currently in prison for Medicare fraud, filed for Chapter 11 reorganization to stay a foreclosure lawsuit, the South Florida Business Journal reported yesterday. Former Hollywood Pavilion CEO Karen Kallen-Zury was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2013 after being convicted of more than $39 million in fraudulent billing by bribing patients to receive phony care at its facility. She has appealed her conviction. Later that year, the 58,189-square-foot hospital and rehab facility was hit with a foreclosure lawsuit. Subsequent to the lawsuit being filed, an entity related to South Miami, Fla.-based Larkin Community Hospital bought the distressed mortgage and took over management of both the 50-bed hospital and the 152-bed rehabilitation facility under a receivership court order. The foreclosure lawsuit is pending. http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/news/2015/04/09/hollywood-hospital-files-chapter-11-as-former-ceo.html?ana=twt
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