Brooklyn resident Barbara Gartner, a former Long Island College Hospital patient, has filed suit to compel the New York State Attorney General’s Charities Bureau “to compel the release of records relating to the … Bureau’s approvals of invasions of the hospital’s $140 million Othmer Endowment Fund.” Ms. Gartner’s request for the records, made under New […]
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SaveLICH: The Warren Buffett Connection
It’s an indirect but real one, of which he is aware. It was in its inception highly beneficial, and had not Long Island College Hospital’s owners, with court acquiescence, used funds for purposes not contemplated in the terms of a gift, it could have averted the crisis LICH and the communities that depend on it […]
Judge Rules SUNY Board Acted Illegally on LICH Closing
The Times reports that New York Supreme Court Justice Johnny Baynes, who earlier extended a temporary restraining order against SUNY’s shutdown of Long Island College Hospital, has ruled that the SUNY board acted in violation of New York State’s open meetings law, and vacated the board’s decision to close LICH. According to the Times: The […]
Cuomo Administration to LICH: Drop Dead
A decision by officials in Governor Cuomo’s administration to delay release of funds needed to finance the merger of Long Island College Hospital with SUNY Downstate Medical Center may have doomed the local health care facility, which could be forced to shut down next month. New York Times: A struggling Brooklyn hospital is making plans […]
State Approval of LICH/SUNY Merger May Come Tomorrow
The long pending merger of Long Island College Hospital into SUNY Downstate Medical Center may be closer to consummation, as the State is expected to announce approval of the deal tomorrow. Wall Street Journal: State officials are expected to announce Thursday that SUNY Downstate Medical Center will take over the financially ailing Long Island College […]
Continuum Signs Off on LICH/SUNY Downstate Merger
As we noted here last July, discussions have been underway concerning a transfer of management of Long Island College Hospital from Continuum Health Partners to SUNY Downstate Medical Center. This now appears closer to fruition. The Brooklyn Paper: Long Island College Hospital’s financial malaise is about to run its course, thanks to an agreement that […]
Times Headlines Insurer’s Battle with LICH, other Hospitals
The contract dispute between UnitedHealthcare, the health insurance giant that controls the popular Oxford Health Plans, and Continuum Health Partners, the hospital consortium that controls Long Island College Hospital, is the subject of a front page article in today’s Times: The New York Times: A front in the national health care battle has opened in […]
Court to Insurers: Don’t Dump LICH Docs
As reported by NY1, a state court today issued an order temporarily restraining UnitedHealthcare, a major health insurance group that controls the popular Oxford Health Plans, from terminating coverage for services provided by doctors affiliated with hospitals in the Continuum Health Partners consortium, which includes Long Island College Hospital. As we previously reported, Continuum’s contract […]
LICH, UnitedHealthcare in Contract Standoff
Continuum Health Partners, the hospital consortium that includes Long Island College Hospital, and UnitedHealthcare, a major underwriter of health insurance plans, including Oxford, failed to renew their contract by the January 1 deadline. Crain’s New York Business: A big Manhattan hospital system and one of the country’s largest insurers have failed to come to terms […]
LICH to leave Continuum; affiliate with Downstate?
According to the Brooklyn Eagle, Continuum Health Partners, the Manhattan-based hospital consortium that now controls Long Island College Hospital, and which last year unsuccessfully sought to close LICH’s obstetrics and pediatrics practices, has entered into a “memorandum of understanding” with SUNY Downstate Medical Center, located in Brooklyn, under which control of LICH’s operations would be […]
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