The Bronx health center founded by disgraced ex-state Sen. Pedro Espada Jr. (pictured) got a 42-day reprieve yesterday to continue receiving Medicaid money until its lawyer can file an appeal.

Bronx Supreme Court Justice Mark Friedlander ordered the state Department of Health to keep the flow of Medicaid dollars going to the Soundview Health Care Network because a higher court should have a say in the matter.

He indicated, however, that the appellate decision was final.

“If there is no stay by the Appellate Court, that will conclude all matters,” Friedlander said.

Soundview has been in a pitched battle to stay open for its more than 20,000 patients ever since Espada and his son, Pedro Gautier Espada, were indicted last year on federal corruption charges for allegedly embezzling the health center’s money to fund a lavish lifestyle of cars, expensive dinners and vacations.

Soundview lawyer Nathan Dembin argued that the Espadas were not involved in the day-to-day operations of the organization, which receives about 70 percent of its funding, some $6 million a year, in Medicaid cash.

Meanwhile, jury selection begins today for Espada’s federal corruption trial on the charges involving Soundview.