As you’ve probably heard, last Friday the SUNY Board of Trustees voted to close Long Island College Hospital, a community health care institution that has served Brooklyn for more than 150 years. LICH was acquired by SUNY Downstate in 2011.
The SUNY Board of Trustees vote authorizes SUNY Downstate to present a plan for closing LICH to the New York State Department of Health, which will make the final decision. I strongly oppose the proposal to close LICH, as I stated a hearing of the SUNY Board of Trustees last Thursday. It is the wrong plan, and will do real harm to families and to our community. This long-term abandonment of essential health care infrastructure would be an irreplaceable loss for downtown and brownstone Brooklyn. It will take tough decisions and strong leadership for SUNY Downstate to become a financially solvent institution, but the complete closure of LICH is simply unacceptable.
The New York State Nurses Association and 1199SEIU, who represent LICH workers, along with the Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, and Boerum Hill Neighborhood Associations and the DUMBO Neighborhood Alliance, are holding a community forum about LICH this Thursday, February 14th, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at the Kane Street Synagogue. Please come to this important community meeting to learn more about how we can work together to save LICH.
Community Forum about LICH
Thursday, February 14, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Kane Street Synagogue, 236 Kane Street (between Court and Clinton)
Thursday, February 14, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Kane Street Synagogue, 236 Kane Street (between Court and Clinton)
For more information about the forum, contact Mickey Green from the New York State Nurses Association at 718-714-8863 or michelle.green@nysna.org.
Our communities abandoned LICH. Over the past many years fewer and fewer local residents would go anywhere near that hospital - except when compelled by a medical emegency. And NOW you want to save it! Would you go there now, for routine care, elective surgery, childbirth? Of course not. This is like the guy who complains when his mistress walks out on him.
ReplyDeleteYou are just miserable and ungratful person.If you dont want to go there,it doesnt mean other people dont.We have hundreds of loyal and greatful patients who dont want to go to other hospitals but LICH.
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