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Beyonce and Jay-Z's VIP Hospital Treatment Probed by Health Department

By Wil Cruz | January 12, 2012 9:32am
The state Health Department on January 11, 2012 dismissed an investigation that the special treatment Beyonce and Jay Z received during the delivery of their baby inconvenienced other parents.
The state Health Department on January 11, 2012 dismissed an investigation that the special treatment Beyonce and Jay Z received during the delivery of their baby inconvenienced other parents.
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UPPER EAST SIDE — Complaints about special treatment that superstar couple Jay-Z and Beyoncé received at Lenox Hill Hospital during the birth of their baby, Blue Ivy, have been dismissed by New York's Health Department.

The agency reviewed two allegations that the hospital coddled Jay-Z and wife Beyoncé during the delivery of their first child — while other parents were inconvenienced and their newborns put at risk.

But the Health Department dropped the probe just hours after it started, the New York Post reported.

"Whenever we receive a complaint, we look into it," Peter Constankes, a spokesman for the department, said Wednesday, according to the New York Daily News.

"It's not necessarily an investigation. It could be a review. Most likely in this case, it would be an investigation."

The Post reported that the complaints were "not from parents," and instead from an anonymous person and another who just happened to read about it.

Beyoncé and Jay-Z took over a wing at the hospital for the delivery of the baby girl on Saturday, reportedly paying $1.3 million for it.

Several families complained to media that they were inconvenienced by the power couple's special treatment. Many said they were kept out of locked down areas, among other complaints.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended the couple's VIP treatment earlier this week.

"I don't think you should keep people from seeing their babies, or whatever, but have different services for people who are full-paying patients," Bloomberg said during a Tuesday press conference.

"It's easy to go and criticize, but somebody's got to pay."