The state Health Department has launched an investigation following complaints that Lenox Hill Hospital gave singer Beyoncé preferential treatment while forbidding other parents from seeing their own newborn babies.
Health Department officials said they received two complaints this afternoon, five days after Beyoncé gave birth to little Blue Ivy Carter.
The state agency would not say who filed the complaints, although there were no shortage of irate couples who got baby bumped.
One of the complaints came from an anonymous person and the other was "a person who read about it" in newspapers, said Michael Moran, spokesman for the state Health Department
The complaints were not from parents who were inconvenienced, the agency said.
"We will investigate," said Moran.
He gave no timetable for how long the probe would take.
Fuming parents at Lenox Hill Hospital told The Post they were essentially put on “lockdown” so that the pampered songstress and her party could come and go as they pleased.
“They just used the hospital like it was their own and nobody else mattered,” blasted new dad Neil Coulon, who said his efforts to see his premature, newborn twins in the neonatal ICU were disrupted at least four times by the arrival of Beyoncé's baby.
Coulon — who is from Jay-Z’s native Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn — said some of his relatives drove 4 1/2 hours to see his girls, only to be shunted aside for Beyoncé.
“They locked us into the NICU and would say, ‘You can’t come out to the hallway for the next 20 minutes.’ When I finally was able to go back out, I went to the waiting room and they’d ushered my family downstairs!
“These are parents who are going through very stressful times,’’ the 39-year-old contractor said of NICU parents. “To have that circus roll into town, having to deal with all this drama because someone is a superstar, isn’t fair.”
The duo had already spent the past two months supervising pricey renovations to Beyoncé’s mammoth, fourth-floor recovery digs — including the installation of a bulletproof door to her room, a hospital worker told The Post.
The windows in her reserved wing on that floor were darkened with what appeared to be special curtains or tape to prevent anyone looking in.
“Her room is bulletproof. It’s custom-made,” a staffer said, noting that the couple sent in a security team “a couple of months ago” to evaluate the accommodations.
“They came in and reconstructed it. It’s completely different,’’ said the employee.
Health Officials Probe Beyoncé Baby Complaints at Lenox Hill Hospital: MyFoxNY.com
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