The Cobble Hill Assn.’s General Spring Meeting takes place this Thursday, May 2, 7:30 p.m. at Long Island College Hospital’s Main Entrance, 339 Hicks Street, Conference Room A. Leading the agenda—not surprisingly—is the future of LICH, a topic of interest to the Brooklyn Heights community.
All are welcome. More info on the Cobble Hill Blog.
After mounting community pressure and a unanimous vote from the NYC Council this week to support its existence, SUNY Downstate has officially withdrawn its plan to sell and close Long Island College Hospital.
DEVELOPING
The New York City Council’s Committee on Health has just unanimously passed a resolution to save Long Island College Hospital.
We just received this notice from the New York State Nurses Association: Hundreds of our community’s most vulnerable residents rely on inpatient psychiatric care at Long Island College Hospital. In a few days, we fear the unit will be completely closed because of Downstate’s inaction in transfering and recruiting psychiatrists. Even though, well experienced, qualified [...]
The NY Post reports in a story by Josh Saul and Rich Calder that LICH’s SUNY overlords have refused to open the facility’s books for two hospital groups interested in taking it over. Hackensack University Medical Center and North Shore-LIJ are said to be interested the report claims. SUNY’s plan to shut down LICH was [...]
Update: Judge Johnny Lee Baynes has issued a new restraining order prohibiting SUNY and the State Health Department from closing LICH until further action by the court. Thanks to reader “Remsen Street Dweller” for the tip. In an email to the press this morning Roy Sloane, president of the Cobble Hill Association, released the organization’s [...]
NYS Senator Daniel Squadron issued this statement this afternoon regarding the SUNY Board of Trustees vote to close Long Island College Hospital: “SUNY again demonstrated a disturbing lack of transparency, holding its vote on the future of LICH in Westchester today. But we still made our voices heard — for our community and for Brooklyn. [...]
Earlier this week a judge ruled that the SUNY board’s decision to close Long Island College Hosptial violated New York State’s open meeting law and vacated its ruling to close the facility. Now, NY1 reports, the board will be holding an open meeting about the hospital not in Brooklyn but at SUNY Purchase in Westchester. [...]
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 [...]
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