Community groups file legal motion to ensure local input into LICH’s future
A coalition of neighborhood civic organizations have filed a “motion to intervene” in the ongoing legal saga over the future of Long Island College Hospital (LICH). Their goal, they wrote in the filing, is to ensure that they, as stakeholders in the hospital’s future, have some input in the decision process over who will be selected as the new hospital operator.
They also want the state Supreme Court to require that LICH’s assets and medical records be placed in a protective trust that will safeguard them from “theft or exploitation.”
The group consists of the Boerum Hill Association, Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association, Cobble Hill Association, Brooklyn Heights Association, Wyckoff Gardens Association, and Riverside Tenants’ Association. Public Advocate Bill de Blasio also joined in the motion’s filing, as his legal team has been participating in the existing–and separate–legal proceedings between LICH and its current operator, SUNY Downstate.