OPINION: Former LICH ombudsman endorses Chinese Community Group’s proposal
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
At Tuesday evening’s gathering at St. Francis College regarding the future of LICH, four bids contained proposals for full-service hospitals.
Two of these four bids have provisions for 100-bed hospitals and a new hospital that would have to be built. In one of the plans, the new facility would take an estimated nine to 10 years to be completed. In the other, construction would begin in two or three years. The result would be many years with a 100-bed hospital where LICH now stands, still proudly.
Builders’ plans change – the plans for the former site of St. Vincent’s Hospital in Manhattan contained an allocation of 100,000 square feet for medical use, but that never happened.