LICH slashes 150 jobs, including doctors, nurses
The announcement that University Hospital of Brooklyn at Long Island College Hospital would lay off approximately 150 employees hasn’t given rise to panic — unlike the hospital’s announcement in 2008 that it planned to close its pediatric and maternity departments.
Nevertheless, it has made people in the community somewhat uncomfortable.
At the same time, reacting to a request from several Brooklyn state legislators, state Comptroller Thomas DeNapoli announced that his office has begun an audit of SUNY Downstate Medical Center and its affiliates — one of which is LICH.
Both the audit and the layoffs make it clear that while the 2011 merger between SUNY Downstate and LICH freed LICH from the control of its unpopular former parent company, Continuum Health Partners, the Cobble Hill hospital isn’t out of the woods financially.