Brooklyn officials push SUNY to keep LICH open until new owner takes over
Ambulance diversion starts Thursday, doors close May 22
The May 22 closure of Long Island College Hospital (LICH) draws closer, and SUNY has already begun shutting down services at the Cobble Hill hospital.
Elected officials in Brooklyn wrote on Tuesday to SUNY chairman H. Carl McCall to ask that health care continue uninterrupted at LICH until a new owner takes possession of the historic institution, which they called vital to neighborhoods from Red Hook to DUMBO.
According to FDNY, SUNY plans to begin diverting ambulances and halting new-patient admissions, labor and delivery and other services at 7 a.m. Thursday, as part of what they say is in the closure plan approved by the state Department of Health (DOH).