Seems LICH is Really on its Way Out This Time
The writing’s been on the wall for a long time, but now there’s no confusing the message: Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn Heights Cobble Hill is almost certainly closing, according to The New York Times. The paper reports that the hospital is likely to begin closing next month “after a decision by the Cuomo…
The writing’s been on the wall for a long time, but now there’s no confusing the message: Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn Heights Cobble Hill is almost certainly closing, according to The New York Times. The paper reports that the hospital is likely to begin closing next month “after a decision by the Cuomo administration to delay grants to help finance a merger intended to rescue the institution.” LICH was supposed to get $22 million in state grants, and if the money doesn’t come through, Stanley Brezenoff, president of Continuum Health Partners—which owns the facility—says the hospital “would run out of cash by mid-March. At that point, he said, he would be forced to begin bankruptcy proceedings and move forward with closing the hospital and laying off its 2,500 employees. Without the state money, Mr. Brezenoff said, Continuum could not complete moving the hospital under the SUNY umbrella. Mr. Brezenoff said that he was already putting together a draft closing plan and preparing to send out termination notices. He said that because the conversation with the state was so recent, he had not yet warned the employees that the merger might be called off.” Update: Thanks to the border patrol who helpfully pointed out that this is in Cobble Hill, goddammit, not Brooklyn Heights!
Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn May Close [NY Times]
a. I don’t think rob understands the difference btw RNs, orderlies, and people who dress about the same but have different titles.
b. No, not everyone finds rob ‘cute’.
c. GrandArmy, the problems is that the guvment mandates this free treatment in ERs but doesn’t reimburse for it. At least a free market health care system will be honest about this.
d. I was in LICH a coupla years ago for a colonoscopy, da kid had an infection back in the late 1980s and spent a coupla nights there, and I’ve been in the ER twice for cuts. Can’t say any of these experiences were bad, and boo if now Methodist gets flooded.
e. I know the common wisdom is that there are too many beds, but in this free market pov I worry about a large scale problem, tornado, earthquake, terror attack, where thousands of people need treatment all at one. Will we then have too many beds?
Rob, I’m sure the reasons every nurse you’ve ever encountered has been awful have absolutely NOTHING to do with you and your attitude. If I had a patient who never looked me in the eye and never spoke to me, even when I was talking to them, I wouldn’t be the nicest person in the world either. You get what you give.
Grand Army;
I didn’t know that Andrew Cuomo was a Republican. Thanks for the clarification.
Grand Army- exactly. I had to go to the emergency room in September. for a 10 minute ambulance ride, without any medical treatment in the ambulance, they charged me 800$. The emergency room came to almost 2000 for some medication and a wait of 6 hours in pain. I lost my medical insurance when I lost my job- and these prices are insane. There’s nothing effective about hospital er’s for anything other than gunshot wounds or car accidents. If you’re bleeding profusely, you get immediate treatment but you could die of a heart attack by the time they finish filling out all the paperwork.
Maybe I read this thread too fast but isn’t the reason for LICH closing pretty clear? It has been spending more on providing healthcare than it is getting reimbursed for. There was a good article about this in New York magazine a few months ago , with the scary title “St Vincent’s is the Lehman Brothers of Hospitals” : http://nymag.com/news/features/68991/
Those who argue against universal healthcare often claim that the uninsured DO receive treatment — via hospital ERs — so, effectively, what’s the problem? The problem is that hospitals in major metropolitan areas who serve huge populations have been running deficits for decades. They have only survived because the state, the feds and sometimes charities like the Roman Catholic churcho have propped them up. Now this model is breaking down. If the Republicans get their way, soon we will see what real market-driven healthcare looks like. And it won’t be pretty.
i never speak to them or even look them in the eye, i just let them do what they have to do, so their rudeness is not a reflection on anything im doing, they are just not nice people.
*rob*
Can’t imagine why a snarky, self entitled a hole would get less than stellar treatment from someone who is probably had it up to here with all the BS that typically walks into a hospital, let alone an ER. Shocking, I feel your pain.
You weren’t relaying your experiences, you were insulting a whole group of people. And not for the first time. and if your experiences were so horrible with every nurse you ever met, I can only imagine what their experience of dealing with you must have been like. So cut it out already.
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And rob, you are so full of crap. As per usual, you have no idea what you are talking about.
bullfuckingshit. i was just relaying my experience with nurses. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM WERE HORRIBLE
*rob*