A woman who scammed her way into an administrator job at the Queen’s Medical Center and then stole nearly $640,000 from the hospital is going back to prison.

A federal judge sentenced Patricia M. Syling in May 2009 to 40 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for mail fraud. U.S. District Judge Susan Oki Mollway also ordered Syling to repay the $639,430 she stole.

As the hospital’s corporate compliance officer, Syling negotiated consulting contracts to businesses she secretly owned and that performed no work for the hospital.

With credit for time she had already served and so-called "good time," federal prison officials released Syling from custody last September.

Almost immediately the court’s probation office said Syling violated the terms of her release.

Syling admitted Monday that she ducked out of a home visit by a probation officer in November, failed to report to the probation office and failed to report in advance that she had moved.

Mollway resentenced her to 11 more months behind bars followed by 25 months of supervised release.

Syling has yet to pay back any of the money she stole.