LICH employees receive layoff notices in the mail
Layoff notices to Long Island College Hospital’s (LICH) 1,800 employees were sent out Tuesday night, March 19 — less than a day after the SUNY Board of Trustees (which oversees LICH and SUNY Downstate Medical Center) voted a second time to close the 155-year-old Cobble Hill hospital that is the last remaining hospital in South Brooklyn.
The closest hospitals are Brooklyn Hospital Center in Fort Greene and New York Methodist Hospital in Park Slope. Both are at least two miles of roads and highways away.
The layoffs warn employees that the hospital could shut down within 90 days — by Monday, June 17.