Patients and staff of Cobble Hill’s Long Island College Hospital, slated to close, are not going gently into that good night. A judge has temporarily halted the closure and will hold a hearing on the matter March 7, in response to a petition from two unions and a group of doctors, the New York Times reported. The hospital is full — at overcapacity, in fact — said Jill Furillo, Executive Director of the New York State Nurses Association, in a NY1 story, so any financial problems are not from lack of need. SUNY bought the hospital in 2011 for $205,350,000.
Judge Temporarily Halts Closure of LICH [NY1]
Court Temporarily Halts Plan to Close a Brooklyn Hospital [NY Times]
Local Pols Rally to Save LICH [Brownstoner]
SUNY Acquires $205M in Prime Real Estate [Brownstoner]


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  1. As a former employee of this hospital (I left voluntarily), I have to say that I am of two minds about this. The hospital has lost a lot of its former grace but still has the potential to be spectacular. Call it what you will, when you refuse to innovate because you are afraid to spend money in order to make money, people notice.

    The notion that the unions would sink this hospital (I was nonunion) is ludicrous. Poor management and bad planning sunk this place. Not 3% raises for the folks who do a job that most people would scoff at, such as cleaning bed pans or wiping bodily fluids or “debris” from floors.

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