Beyoncé and Jay-Z were in lullaby land with their baby girl Blue Ivy Carter Sunday, but one new dad was fuming over the velvet rope in the maternity ward that kept him away from his twins.
Neil Coulon, 38, of Brooklyn said the stress of his wife delivering two premature girls was tripled by Beyoncé’s bodyguards treating Lenox Hill Hospital like an exclusive nightclub. Coulon griped that he’s been repeatedly barred from the sixth-floor neonatal intensive care unit, once for 20 minutes, by the superstar couple’s private security. He said bodyguards wearing headsets even cleared the sixth floor waiting room, booting his relatives out.
“Three times they stopped me from entering or exiting the NICU (Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit) and it happened once on Friday — just because they wanted to use the hallway. They should have been more strategic about it. These are children with problems in intensive care and you're just going to take over the hospital like you own it? All I want is an apology." - Coulton, a contractor from Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Lenox Hill staffers, speaking anonymously, told the Daily News that Beyoncé and Jay-Z paid $1.3 million to seal off and redecorate a wing at the upper East Side hospital, in a super-strict effort to protect their privacy. Beyoncé gave birth to her daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, Saturday night on the sixth floor, near the NICU, a hospital staffer told The News.
“Some people were upset,” the staffer said. “I heard a gentleman say he couldn’t go upstairs to see his baby [Saturday]".
“I have not personally heard of the complaints. We take patient satisfaction very seriously. This is the first time I’m hearing about it.” - Hospital spokeswoman Anne Silverman.
Coulon, whose wife, whose wife delivered two premature and underweight girls on Wednesday, insisted he wasn’t the only new parent upset by the hip-hop hassles in the hospital.
“I know they spent $1.3 million and I'm just a contractor from Bed-Stuy, but the treatment we received was not okay. My wife is just terribly upset. She had a C-section. She gave birth to twins. She is sore. Nobody needs this. This is the NICU. Nobody cares if you’re a celebrity. Nobody is star-gazing. They just want to see their children. To have that circus roll into town and ruin our parade was unpleasant." - Neil Coulton
Source: NY Daily News
REDICULOUS,UNETHICAL, AND IMMORAL for any Healthcare Center and/or worker to allow special treatment to one patient over the other!! MONEY and FAME doesn't make their special day any more important than the next person. I don't care how much money they paid out for their so called privacy-the issue comes when it affects other people in the process! SHAME on them all!
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