See updates after the jump. TWC/NY1 News reports that NYU Langone Medical Center has joined in the bid by real estate developer Fortis Property Group, a bid that was earlier tabled by the SUNY board, to close Long Island College Hospital, convert most of its campus to residential use, and provide on the site a “medical mall” that would include ”an urgent care center, physical therapy facilities and office surgery.” This proposal, unlike the one by Brooklyn Hospital, wouldn’t include an emergency room with ambulance service.
Update: according to Crain’s, the NYU Langone/Fortis proposal would now include “a freestanding emergency department, cancer center, ambulatory surgery center and multispecialty physician practice.” Second update: The Eagle today reports that the Fortis/NYU Langone proposal has been expanded to include Lutheran Medical Center, which “would provide dental health, primary care and behavioral health.”
On a different but related subject, see Denis Hamill’s Daily News column about Stanley Brezenoff, Mayor de Blasio’s choice as labor advisor, and his efforts to kill LICH in order to “unlock” its real estate value.
