3 CHEERS TO THE JUDGE: Community applauds order temporarily stopping closure of LICH
A Brooklyn Supreme Court judge’s temporary restraining order stopping the State University of New York from closing Long Island College Hospital (LICH) has made Downtown-area officials and civic leaders, not to mention many of the hospital’s staffers, very happy.
However, the order, by Hon. Betsy Barros, has made SUNY Downstate, with which LICH is affiliated, rather unhappy.
The SUNY Board of Trustees unanimously voted earlier this month to close LICH, which lost more than $300 million from 2007 through 2011, according to an audit from the state Comptroller’s Office.