Update: there will be a complete LICH update at the Cobble Hill Association’s Fall Meeting this Monday, October 28, 7:30 p.m., at the Cobble Hill Health Center, 380 Henry Street. More details here. According to Crain’s New York Business, SUNY Downstate Medical Center has sent layoff notices to 500 workers at Long Island College Hospital. The notices are effective this coming Tuesday, October 29. SUNY says this is being done to bring staffing levels to what is appropriate given LICH’s current level of operation which, by court order, has been was to be maintained at the level it was on July 19. Unions representing most of the affected workers are planning to go to court seeking an injunction to halt the layoffs.
SUNY Issues Layoff Notices to 500 LICH Workers
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