Nassau University Medical Center’s former CEO Meg Ryan sued the hospital and its executives, alleging a contract breach, gender-based pay discrimination, defamation and retaliation.

Ryan’s lawsuit names the Nassau Health Care Corporation, the parent company that runs NUMC; the hospital’s new interim president, Dr. Richard Becker; NUMC board chair Stuart Rabinowitz and Richard Kessel, chair of the Nassau Interim Financial Authority, the financial watchdog group that oversees the hospital’s finances.

"The coordinated, unrelenting campaign by [Nassau Health Care Corporation] leadership to defame Ms. Ryan and deny her payments she is owed under her employment contract is disgraceful," Alex Hartzband, an attorney representing Ryan, wrote in a statement Monday.

"Since June, members of NHCC le

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