SUNY Board votes again to close LICH
The SUNY Board of Trustees voted a second time to close Long Island College Hospital (LICH), which serves the Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens and Brooklyn Heights communities.
However, the final hospital closure plan must be approved by the State Department of Health before going into effect.
The vote was held today, March 19, at SUNY Purchase in Westchester – 40 miles away from the hospital in question — following a State Supreme Court judge’s overturning of the previous February 6 vote on the grounds that it violated open meetings laws.