BREAKING: LICH reportedly shutting down this weekend
Long Island College Hospital (LICH) medical staff is reporting being told by administrators that the hospital, located at 339 Hicks Street in Cobble Hill, will be stripped of its equipment and patients this weekend (July 20-21) and that the last day of surgery is Friday, July 19.
If true, such an action would be in violation of state and borough Supreme Court orders to halt any closure of or reduction in services at the 156-year-old hospital, which is owned and operated by the State University of New York (SUNY) and SUNY Downstate Medical Center.
However, SUNY Downstate spokesperson Robert J. Bellafiore called the rumors “patently false statements,” and stated that “the hospital is not closing this weekend” as “no hospital in New York State can close without the approval of the Department of Health.”