BREAKING: State, SUNY come to tentative agreement on future of LICH
Updated: 2/23/2014
A rumored deal between the state of New York and SUNY Downstate over the fate of Long Island College Hospital (LICH) in Cobble Hill/Brooklyn Heights has come to fruition, according to Governor Andrew Cuomo, SUNY Chairperson Carl McCall and Mayor Bill de Blasio, who made the announcement late in the afternoon on Thursday, February 20.
According to the settlement agreement, SUNY will cease its role as operator of the cash-strapped 155-year-old community hospital “no later than May 2014,” at which point “an agreed upon process to deliver a viable long-term health care solution” would kick in.