SUNY releases closure details for LICH in Brooklyn
Doors close, treatment ends May 22
Despite Brooklyn officials’ entreaties to SUNY Chairman H. Carl McCall to put the closure of Long Island College Hospital (LICH) on hold until a new operator can step in, SUNY says it will shut LICH’s doors on May 22.
The case continues in Brooklyn on Tuesday before state Supreme Court Justice Johnny Lee Baynes.
LICH was placed on ambulance diversion last Thursday. When 9-1-1 is called, the Emergency Medical Services division of FDNY will take patients by ambulance to other area hospitals, SUNY said. Walk-in patients to LICH will continue to receive medical screening and stabilizing treatment until May 22 at 7 a.m.