| Maurice Mazel | |
| Birth Name: | Maurice Seymour Mazel |
| Birth Date: | 12 January 1895 |
| Birth Place: | Chicago, Illinois |
| Burial Place: | Rosehill Mausoleum |
| Occupation: | Surgeon |
| Education: | Northwestern University Medical School |
Maurice Seymour Mazel (1895–1980) was a prominent Chicago heart surgeon who founded Edgewater Hospital.
Maurice Mazel was born in Chicago on January 12, 1895.[1] He graduated from Northwestern University in 1916, and from its medical school in 1918.[1] [2]
Mazel was treasurer of the corporation that built Edgewater Hospital in Chicago in 1928, and he served as its first medical director.[3]
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 owned by Mazel. The case was not referred for prosecution, but $363,000 in reimbursements were withheld.[4]
Mazel died on January 30, 1980, and was entombed at Rosehill Mausoleum.[5] [6]
Edgewater remained a major medical center for many decades, until it closed in December 2001 after substantial Medicare and Medicaid fraud blacklisted it from receiving further business from federal or state medical programs.[7]