Veterans hail decision to keep full service at VA hospital
Feds had eyed moving surgical unit out of Brooklyn
Brooklyn’s military veterans were breathing a big sigh of relief after a local lawmaker announced that plans by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to close an inpatient surgical unit at the Veterans Administration New York Harbor Healthcare System in Bay Ridge have been scrapped.
U.S. Rep. Dan Donovan (R-C-Bay Ridge-Southwest Brooklyn-Staten Island) said Tuesday that he and other elected officials had been successful in their efforts to convince the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs to keep the inpatient surgical unit open at the Harbor Healthcare location (also known as the Brooklyn VA Medical Center) rather than move the unit to a location on the East Side of Manhattan.
The unit, located within the hospital at 800 Poly Place, had been under the threat of closure for several months.