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 […]
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Nabe’s newest native exits from BQE
This baby definitely wanted to be born in Brooklyn, not Staten Island: New York Daily News The BQE stood for a Baby’s Quick Exit Thursday when a mother gave birth on the expressway. … “The baby came out real quick,” said NYPD Officer George Tsoukaris, 37, who delivered the child on the Atlantic Ave. off-ramp […]
Paterson Announces State Grant Saving LICH In-school Clinics
We previously reported the planned closure by Long Island College Hospital of four in-school clinics that serve students in six schools located in the downtown Brooklyn area. Today, Governor Paterson announced a state grant that will enable LICH to keep these clinics open during the coming school year. Brooklyn Daily Eagle These clinics — at […]
Urban Sketcher’s Take on LICH ER
While waiting to have his tongue stitched back together, Urban Sketcher Jason Das jotted down these impressions of the LICH emergency room.
LICH Slammed in Consumer Reports Poll
According to IT News Online, Consumer Reports magazine has polled health care consumers and, as a result, produced patient satisfaction ratings for hospitals nationwide. Long Island College Hospital was one of those that “fell to the bottom” in the ratings. The poll revealed a negative correlation between patient satisfaction and the “intensity” or aggressiveness of […]
Marty Slams LICH School Clinic Closures
Borough President Marty Markowitz today said he is “deeply disappointed” by Long Island College Hospital’s closure of four school-based clinics that serve students from six schools in the downtown Brooklyn area. “It’s unfortunate,” he said, “that innovative ideas and funding mechanisms that would have kept the doors of these vital clinics open could not be […]
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 […]
LICH Obstetrics Decline
As reported by The Brooklyn Paper: Long Island College Hospital is in the midst of a precipitous drop in births this year, months after threatening to shut its maternity ward, a decline that is resulting in large increases in deliveries at other Brooklyn hospitals, including a record number of births in 48 hours at one […]
LICH Chief: Hospital at “Important Juncture”
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, […]
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