UPDATE Kingsbridge: Man Arrested for Unauthorized Apply of Occupation after “Wellness” Center Buyer Dies

By SÍLE MOLONEY

The NYPD mentioned they’ve arrested 55-year-old Luis Rojas Cabrera of New Jersey and he has been charged with reckless endangerment and unauthorized observe of career after a 27-year-old girl was discovered unconscious within the Kingsbridge part of The Bronx on Sunday, July 19, and died. According to 1 police supply, the lady was a buyer / affected person of Bereshit Wellness Center in Kingsbridge, the place she was discovered unconscious. The web site for the middle is www.drluisrojas.com.

Police mentioned that on Sunday, July 19, at round 1.10 p.m., police responded to a 911 name relating to an aided girl inside NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital situated at 5141 Broadway within the Inwood part of Northern Manhattan, simply south of Marble Hill.

“Upon arrival, officers were informed by hospital staff that a 27-year-old woman had been transported unconscious and unresponsive to the hospital from Bereshit Lifestyle Center, located at 3190 Riverdale Avenue [in Kingsbridge], within the confines of the 50th Precinct,” a police spokesperson mentioned.

Police mentioned the lady was subsequently pronounced deceased, and the NYC Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will decide the reason for loss of life. They mentioned the investigation stays ongoing. Asked if the lady had taken any medicine on the heart, police declined to say.

The Center is situated within the Kingsbridge part of The Bronx and a seek for its web site was discovered at www.drluisrojas.com. On the homepage of this website, it reads, “Welcome to Bereshit Lifestyle Center.” The heart presents the providers listed within the hooked up web site extracts, in response to the identical web site URL.

Norwood News requested the NYPD if the Luis Rojas Cabrera who was arrested is a physician. The press spokesperson mentioned she didn’t have that info.

Norwood News contacted NYC Department of Health (DOH) for touch upon the incident and requested which kind of license the middle holds. We will share any suggestions we obtain.

Another part of the web site references Dr. Luis A. Rojas, described as an  M.D., Surgeon, Naturopath, a full member of the Dominican Medical College, Dominican College of Surgeons, and the Superior Council of Natural Medicine within the Dominican Republic.

An extract reads, “I am a member of the Hispanic Health Professionals Association of New York, Inc. I am U.S. Board Certified by the A.A.D.P. in Holistic Health, U.S. Board Certified by the A.A.M.A in Alternative Medicine. I am currently based in New York City and  I am the founder of Bereshit Lifestyle Center. I feel to a great degree fortunate that for as far back as 30 years I have been given the opportunity to do something I completely enjoy. It gives me great pleasure to help individuals gain improvement in their health condition and lifestyle through natural methods and simple therapies.”

Dr. Rojas’s Story is additional outlined as follows: “I come from a family of medical professionals, I was exposed at an early age to the joy it brought my mother in helping others at her clinic based in the Dominican Republic. At the age of 11, I was allowed to assist my mother in various nursing and medical procedures, thus causing an immense desire to continue studying in the area of nursing and medicine.”

The story continues, “I eventually enrolled at the Universidad Tecnologica de Santiago en Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in 1990 and graduated in 1995 as a physician. A few years later in 2002 I graduated as a surgeon from Salvador B. Gautier Hospital located in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. I was also fortunate to train in several surgical specialties, such as head and neck, bariatric, laparoscopic, and other types of surgeries as well as in alternative, integrative and naturopathic medicines abroad in places like Israel, France, Puerto Rico, and Mexico.”

It continues, “I initially worked as a nurse and then as a doctor at the Medical Center Maranatha which was the medical center founded by my mother. I was founding physician of the medical clinic at a prison located at kilometro 15 in Azua, Dominican Republic. I was chief resident during my  general surgery residency and then chief of emergency at the hospital Salvador B. Gautier.”

The web site story extract continues, “I was medical specialist and collaborated with the development of more than 100 surgeons during their medical residencies in hospitals such as: Salvador B. Gautier, Francisco Moscoso Puello, U.C.E university medical center in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. I was part of a surgical team that belonged to Public Health (SESPAS), which conducted operations  every weekend in all public hospitals across the country in order to reduce the waiting list of patients who required surgical intervention.”

It concludes, “I worked in the medical center Vista del Jardin as a surgeon and naturopathic physician. I assist in the development of naturopathic physicians in the Universidad Nacional Evangelica (UNEV), in addition I taught courses in natural hygienist medicine, nutrition, ozone therapy, magnet therapy, alternative and integrative medicine in Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Mexico and the United States. Currently I have performed over 6,000 Surgeries including thyroid, abdominal, bariatric, oncology, head and neck, among others. I am currently an active surgeon and Naturopath in the Dominican Republic and an alternative and holistic medicine practioner in the United States.”

The Kingsbridge-based heart is described by the web site, Yelp, as among the many prime 10 naturopathic/holistic entities.

A name to 1 quantity listed on the middle’s web site on Monday went to voicemail however the mailbox was full. Another name positioned with a second listed quantity went to the a teen who mentioned he was the son of Dr. Luis Rojas. His son agreed to take a message on behalf of his father. Norwood News will share any suggestions we obtain. 

A 3rd quantity listed on the web site was for a Fairlawn, New Jersey-based quantity and went to a common voicemail with no indication of who owns the quantity. Norwood News left a message and requested remark.

Norwood News additionally despatched an e mail request for remark to the e-mail listed on the identical web site and and an automatic out of workplace reply referred us to the New York City Department of Health for “urgent inquiries.” 

One part of the identical web site www.drluisrojas.com, which lists Bereshit Wellness Center on its homepage, advertises new antiviral kits. Another part talks about therapies for numerous sicknesses.

In gentle of the arrest of Rojas Cabrera, Norwood News has additionally requested NYC Department of Health (DOH) if the middle is now closed or will likely be closed.

A motto on the middle’s web site reads, “Running Towards Nature, may your food be your medicine and medicine be your food.”