After last year’s controversy over the plan by Continuum Health Partners, the consortium that manages Long Island College Hospital, to close LICH’s obstetrics and pediatrics practices, Continuum’s threat to shut down LICH if that plan that was rejected, and the State Department of Health’s disapproval of Continuum’s application to terminate the practices, LICH’s interim president, Dominick Stanzione told a group of “over 100 friends, supporters [of] and donors” to LICH at a reception honoring the hospital’s 150th anniversary that it “is at an important juncture.” However, rather than predicting doom, he stressed “enhancements to LICH’s major clinical services, such as Therapeutic Hypothermia for heart attack victims and the new ‘Volcano’ Intravascular ultrasound system.”
“Decisions made now,” Stanzione said, “are improving the future physician and patient experience at LICH.”
