New hospital at LICH: SUNY announces Brooklyn Health Partners’ bid for Long Island College Hospital scores highest
Promises immediate 150-bed 'bridge' facility
SUNY Chairman Carl McCall and Associate Vice Chancellor Lora Lefebvre announced at a trustee meeting on Thursday that a non-profit group proposing a full-service hospital, Brooklyn Health Partners Development Group, was the winner in the bidding war to take over Long Island College Hospital (LICH).
Under the plan, Brooklyn Health Partners would build a new 300-400 bed full-service hospital at the site of the current LICH complex in Cobble Hill, using the Fuller and Othmer Pavilions, the Polhemus building and part of the Amity Pavilion. It would create a mixed-use “medical district” in the surrounding sites with medical offices, residential and commercial development.
An ambitious array of health services are proposed, including medical/surgical, pediatrics, intensive care, coronary care, maternity, pediatric ICU, physical medicine and rehabilitation, and adult inpatient psychiatry. Outpatient services would include emergency, ambulance, prenatal and family planning, primary and specialty care, rehabilitation therapy, ambulatory, and mental health.