St. Petersburg City Hospital No. 20

History

The original name of the hospital is "Second United Hospital." Its opening took place on November 1, 1958. The hospital was designed for 300 beds: two 50-bed therapeutic departments (with a cardiological and gastroenterological bias), two surgical 50 beds each, 50-bed neurological and ENT departments.

In February 1970, United Hospital No. 2 was renamed City Hospital No. 20.

The hospital has 507 employees: doctors, nurses and junior staff. Including 3 doctors of medical sciences, 13 candidates of medical sciences, 79 doctors of the highest and first category.

2024

The court sent to the pre-trial detention center employees of the hospital No. 20 of St. Petersburg in the case of embezzlement for ₽344 million

In early October 2024, the Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg ruled to detain several employees of City Hospital No. 20 as part of an investigation into a large-scale fraud case. The suspects are charged with embezzlement of more than ₽344 million budget funds from January 2021 to June 2024. Read more here.

Searches in the case of embezzlement of 1 billion rubles through "dead souls." VIDEO

On October 1, 2024, it became known that the security forces conducted about 50 searches in a criminal case of major fraud in the City Hospital No. 20 of St. Petersburg. The administration of the medical institution is suspected of organizing a fraudulent scheme to steal compulsory medical insurance funds through fictitious employment. The total damage is estimated at about 1 billion rubles.

The criminal case was initiated under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - fraud committed by an organized group or on an especially large scale. Such acts are punishable by imprisonment for up to ten years. The implementation of the criminal scheme began in 2021. In the medical institution, an active recruitment of fictitious employees began - drivers, cleaners, computer operators, etc. Such "dead souls" received salaries and bonuses, although they did not do any work.

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According to investigators, the scheme was organized by the leaders of the clinic, as well as persons associated with them. The number of fictitious employees, according to available data, is in the tens. According to the case file, the "dead souls" received salaries of hundreds of thousands of rubles a month, as well as bonuses of 1 million rubles each. The main part of this money was transferred by the persons involved in the scheme, allegedly, to their patrons. As a result, the total damage reached almost 1 billion rubles.

The head of the human resources department, chief accountant, deputy chief physician for economics, deputy chief physician for surgery, lawyer-consultant of the clinic and several dozen other employees of Gorbolnitsa No. 20 were delivered to the police. Searches were carried out in the medical institution itself, as well as at the home addresses of the suspects, including in the Leningrad Region, Moscow and the Moscow Region. As of the beginning of October 2024, the procedural status of 36 people who may be related to the case is determined^[1]:^[2]

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