#SaveLICH Activities This Week

By on October 22, 2013 10:16 pm in Government, Health

This dispatch just in from Mickey Green and the NYS Nurses Association:

Thanks to your efforts and broad support from community groups, elected officials, hospital staff and their unions, Long Island College Hospital remains open for care. Access to the quality health care services that LICH has been providing for more than 150 years depends on our continued efforts. Please try to attend these upcoming events:
• Tomorrow, Wednesday, October 23rd at 2:30 PM at 360 Adams Street, NYS Supreme Court Judge Demarest will hear a motion brought by community groups and the Public Advocate to vacate her May 2011 transfer order that allowed the State University to take over LICH.
• Tomorrow evening, Wednesday, October 23rd at 6PM, at LICH, 339 Hicks Street, first floor conference rooms, NYSNA invites the community to a panel discussion of the status of the various LICH-related legalproceedings.
• Cobble Hill Association 2013 General Meeting, Long Island College Hospital Update, Monday, October 28th, 7:30 PM, at the Cobble Hill Health Center, 380 Henry Street.
• NYS Supreme Court Judge Baynes has scheduled a contempt hearing on Monday, November 18th at 10 AM, 360 Adams Street

Please pass along this important information. Keep LICH open for care.

Thanks,
Michelle Green & Patients For LICH
NYS Nurses Association

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  • Remsen Street Dweller

    Thank you, Homer.

    Just want to shine a light on today’s (Wed. Oct. 23rd’s) LICH-related events — also note the change of address for tonight 6PM community meeting:

    • At 2:30 PM at 360 Adams Street, NYS Supreme Court Judge Demarest will hear a motion brought by community groups and the Public Advocate to vacate her May 2011 transfer order that allowed the State University to take over LICH.

    • Community Meeting tonight at 6PM — Please NOTE: Change of address —> 112 Pacific Street, 2nd Floor. This is the LICH HR building. NYSNA invites the community to a panel discussion of the status of the various LICH-related legal proceedings.

  • Remsen Street Dweller

    FYI — The New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) has been circulating a petition to keep LICH open as a full service hospital. The petition will be ultimately presented to Governor Cuomo.

    If you see any of the nurses with petitions in the neighborhood, please sign it!

  • Remsen Street Dweller

    Save the date!

  • Remsen Street Dweller

    If you care about saving our hospital, please read this article in the Brooklyn Paper:

    http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/36/43/dtg-lich-ombudsman-goes-rogue-2013_10_25_bk.html

  • Remsen Street Dweller