The search for Flushing business owner Xiuping Shen has concluded after she was found to have died at an area nursing home in late January.
Courtesy of Kim’s office
The mystery surrounding a Flushing small business owner, who was reported missing in November, has been solved, but the culmination of the search for her was not the ending anyone wanted.
Assemblymember Ron Kim updated the community on the search for 68-year-old Xiuping Shen, who owned a small tailor shop in a downtown Flushing shopping center and vanished nearly four months ago.
Her family back in Tianjin, China initially reached out to Harriet Lo, President of the Tianjin Commerce Associates USA to help find her, and the business leader discovered that on Jan. 16, Shen had entered New York-Presbyterian Queens Hospital with a medical issue.
Though she was not able to see her, Lo confirmed that she was okay with her doctor. However, Lo received a follow-up call from Shen’s family several weeks later, who had not heard from her or anyone else since that night in mid-January.
As is its policy, the hospital refused to release any information to anyone not listed as Shen’s emergency contact, which only listed her ex-husband who could not be reached.
Lo began to search for her again and surmised that she may have been discharged to a local nursing home. Lo and Shen’s friends began a search of every nursing home and rehabilitation facility that they could find in Flushing, but they were unsuccessful.
Lo contacted Kim and his staff and they reached out to the administration at the hospital, and eventually learned the name of the nursing home she had been sent to. It was one that Lo had previously visited in her search but without success. The facility confirmed that Shen had been a patient there but refused to give her any additional information.
Kim’s office contacted the nursing home directly and learned that Shen died at the facility on Jan. 29, and her remains were sent to the city…
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