Opinion
July 31, 1989
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Levitt, J.).
Ordered that the appeal from the order is dismissed; and it is further,
Ordered that the judgment is modified by deleting all references to "Michael B. Meyers, M.D." and substituting therefor "Michael B. Meyers, M.D., P.C."; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed; and it is further,
Ordered that the respondent is awarded one bill of costs.
The appeal from the intermediate order must be dismissed because the right of direct appeal therefrom terminated with the entry of judgment in the action (see, Matter of Aho, 39 N.Y.2d 241, 248). The issues raised on appeal from the order are brought up for review and have been considered on the appeal from the judgment (CPLR 5501 [a] [1]).
Dr. Michael B. Meyers, the sole officer, sole shareholder and sole employee of the defendant professional corporation (see, Business Corporation Law § 1505), was the anesthesiologist during surgery performed upon the plaintiff's decedent at the defendant hospital on June 30, 1980. Dr. Meyers' corporation was not served until April 15, 1983, when process was delivered to the Secretary of State (see, Business Corporation Law § 306).
The plaintiff has, in the face of the motion by Dr. Meyers' corporation for summary judgment dismissing the action as against it as time barred, failed to sustain her burden (see, Connell v Hayden, 83 A.D.2d 30, 39; see also, Paciello v Patel, 83 A.D.2d 73) of establishing that the professional services corporation was united in interest with the timely served defendant hospital (see, CPLR 203 [b]; see also, Connell v Hayden, supra; Hill v St. Clare's Hosp., 67 N.Y.2d 72, 79; Holzberg v Flower Fifth Ave. Hosps., 39 A.D.2d 526, affd 32 N.Y.2d 716). We note, moreover, that the plaintiff does not claim that the continuous treatment provided to her decedent by the defendant hospital, where the plaintiff's decedent remained in a comatose state for approximately one year, is attributable to the professional services corporation (see, Paciello v Patel, supra). Since the record otherwise establishes that Dr. Meyers last attended the plaintiff's decedent more than 2 1/2 years before service was effectuated on the defendant hospital, the action as against Dr. Meyers' corporation was untimely commenced even if the corporation and the defendant hospital were united in interest.
We have considered the plaintiff's remaining contentions and find them to be without merit. We have, however, corrected the apparent scrivener's error in the judgment appealed from to reflect that the action is dismissed as untimely as against Dr. Meyers professional services corporation rather than Dr. Meyers individually, against whom the action was dismissed approximately 4 1/2 years ago for lack of jurisdiction. Rubin, J.P., Spatt, Harwood and Rosenblatt, JJ., concur.