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# Coney Island Hospital Docs Steal From City System
- URL: https://bklyner.com/coney-island-hospital-docs-steal-from-city-system-sheepshead-bay/
- Published: 2010-05-21T19:30:47.000Z
- Updated: 2010-05-21T19:30:47.000Z
- Author: Ned Berke
- Tags: joseph jerome, kemambady sheka, university group research and education fund, university medical group associates, #API-Imported

From the [New York Post](http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/coney%5Fmds%5Fdoctored%5Fbooks%5Fjej2Goto6peFfqokeIhfjM?ref=bklyner.com):

[![Photo courtesy of MDanalakis via Flickr](/content/images/2750/4039980856_c1ab4e14c5_b.jpg "Coney Island Hospital in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn")](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2750/4039980856%5Fc1ab4e14c5%5Fb.jpg?ref=bklyner.com)

Photo courtesy of MDanalakis via Flickr

> A doctors group that supplies medical services to Coney Island Hospital created a separate corporation that took in $4.2 million in fees that should have gone to the city hospital system — but it’s a mystery who authorized the spinoff, according to records obtained by The Post.

> Now some of the doctors employed by University Medical Group Associates are themselves demanding answers from its leaders about the creation of the University Group Research and Education Fund.

> Joseph Jerome, who oversaw the operation even though he isn’t an MD, collected $681,969 in 2006\. That included $457,233 from the doctors group, $115,000 from the subsidiary fund and $109,736 in deferred compensation and benefits, according to IRS filings.

> In 2007, he received a total of $695,079.

> The group president at the time, Kemambady Sheka, chair of Coney Island’s surgery department, had earnings and benefits of $726,303 in 2006 and $694,136 in 2007 from the dual salary lines.

> Minutes of the board of directors’ meetings show the doctors group created the fund as a depository for fees of about $1 million a year coming in from St. George’s Medical School in the Caribbean, which sent its students to train at Coney Island under the doctors.