Maurice Mazel

Maurice Seymour Mazel (1895 to 1980) was a Chicago heart surgeon who founded Edgewater Hospital. He was born in Chicago on 12 January 1895, graduated from Northwestern University in 1916 and from its medical school in 1918. Mazel was treasurer of the corporation that built Edgewater Hospital in Chicago in 1928 and served as its first medical director. The hospital remained a major medical centre for many decades. In 1977 investigators from the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare found that the hospital had improperly spent Medicare funds on resources used by a private clinic that Mazel owned; the case was not referred for prosecution, but 363,000 dollars in reimbursements were withheld. Mazel died on 30 January 1980 and was entombed at Rosehill Mausoleum. Edgewater Hospital closed in December 2001 after substantial Medicare and Medicaid fraud barred it from further federal and state business.