TOO SOON FOR LICH OBIT? Give its doctors and nurses a chance to decide
OPINION
Back in late 2009, when everyone, including myself, was hailing SUNY Downstate’s imminent acquisition of Long Island College Hospital (LICH) as the long-awaited development that would save LICH from destruction, Denis Hamill, in the Daily News, wrote a column that called the agreement “a smelly political back room merger of LICH with SUNY Downstate Medical Center is imminent.”
Hamill quoted Dr. John Romanelli, then head of the LICH medical staff, to the effect that the deal was brokered by Stanley Brezenoff of Continuum which, after years of building up debts, dumped LICH “in an orphan’s basket on the state’s doorstep.”