Rumors about The New Parkway Hospital unfounded

The New Parkway Hospital is reassuring the community that it remains open after rumors that surfaced last week, which caused confusion and even resulted in some ambulances being diverted away from the hospital.
Fred Stewart, the Vice President of Marketing & New Business Development at Parkway, said that the rumors began Friday, August 1 with an item in Crain’s Health Pulse, a daily newsletter put out by the magazine for health care professionals. Those rumors indicated that the hospital, which is located in Forest Hills, would not be able to meet its payroll.
“Payroll was met; there was no substance to the rumors,” Stewart said. “We are still open as an acute care facility with all our services.”
This past Monday, August 4, Stewart said that the newsletter included a new piece saying that the rumors were, in fact, false.
Stewart said that they received phone calls both from concerned community members and from physicians when the rumors started.
“We got a tremendous amount of phone calls,” Stewart said. “This is very, very disrupting. They [the rumors] can be very damaging not only to the hospital but to the community and physicians at large.”
Along with that, Stewart said that the hospital even received feedback that some ambulances had been diverted from Parkway.
Not only has The New Parkway Hospital remained open, but Stewart said that it is also “currently in negotiations with larger tertiary care institutions regarding clinical affiliations.”
The services at The New Parkway Hospital include emergency room, a stroke center, operating rooms, radiology, hyperbaric and wound care centers.