BREAKING: LICH emergency room may close tomorrow, Thursday, June 20
Long Island College Hospital’s (LICH) emergency room may close as of 6 a.m. tomorrow morning, Thursday, June 20, say sources with the 155-year-old community hospital in Cobble Hill/Brooklyn Heights.
It is unknown whether LICH will close, but the State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate, which owns LICH, issued a letter today to staff notifying them that emergency medical services (EMS) — including ambulances — are ordered to be diverted to other hospitals in the borough.
“”The emergency room will not accept ambulance patients effective June 20, 2013 at 6:00 A.M.”
Walk-in patients would presumably be allowed in.