It's Official, Long Island College Hospital Will Close
The Brooklyn Eagle reported this morning that the SUNY board unanimously voted to close the Cobble Hill hospital. They also covered Thursday’s public hearing on the matter. SUNY will receive a pretty penny for the 200,000-square-foot complex; Council Member Brad Lander estimates as much as $500 million. Also, the property is already zoned for residential…
The Brooklyn Eagle reported this morning that the SUNY board unanimously voted to close the Cobble Hill hospital. They also covered Thursday’s public hearing on the matter. SUNY will receive a pretty penny for the 200,000-square-foot complex; Council Member Brad Lander estimates as much as $500 million. Also, the property is already zoned for residential use, meaning this is likely to become housing.
I live in DUMBO and I delivered my daughter at lich and it was a wonderful experience. The staff was top rate. The labor and delivery ward was clean and attractive. I can’t speak for any other department, but I had only praise for my stay. I’m very sad to see the hospital go, only to be replaced by more apartments.
Having had several poor experiences with this hospital, I say it’s about time. Everyone wants the emergency room, but no one goes there for ongoing treatments, and it’s no surprise why. And the ER sucks too. You wait over an hour – bleeding – with no one else in the waiting room. I delivered a baby there and it was a hellish experience. They’ve lost medical records and blamed me for it, sending me down to a basement file room to search for myself. I’ve been in the neighborhood nearly 20 years. Blame the gentifiers if you want. This hospital is no “amenity”. If you want to stay local for your treatment, Methodist is good – but NYU Langone is closer.
500m for 200k sf? I never
Well, I will admit that my doctors are in Manhattan. Not that I have anything against the ones nearby (in fact, they would be more convenient) but because I am loyal to my doctors whom I have been seeing for decades. It is certainly not because I am rich (definitely not!) I think that goes for lots of other people. If you trust a doc you tend to stick with them. And yes, I guess I am one of the “new people” as I have been here less than ten years, although recently I am starting to feel like a crabby old timer who is bugged out by all the new wealth.
I’m a superintendent a block away from the hospital and I was told Donald Trump made an offer. This definitely has greed all over it. I find it hard to believe if this hospital had really bad financial problems for the past 17 years, why would SUNY take a risk in buying it? I believe they already had plans on selling it to get in on the high profit from selling it, not care how many people and small businesses will be affected by this! Money is the root of all evil.
Those articles do not prove your point. The first article conerns bankruptcy settlement of the hospital’s malpractice suits but does not state that there are an abnormal number of such suits. The other article is about consumer satisfaction, not quality of care, and it is subjective.
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Yep. Troglodyte.
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