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SUNY Withdraws Closure Plan
SUNY Downstate officials announce they are withdrawing a plan to close LICH and will now work to craft a sustainability plan to continue medical services and education. Read more: http://brooklyn.ny1.com/content/news/181108/suny-downstate-withdraws-lich-closure-plan#sthash.vxrx6YLZ.dpuf -
State issues formal call for hospital operator to take over LICH
SUNY issued a request for information (RFI) for an operator to run a full-scale acute care hospital or a more limited health facility on or near LICH’s Hicks St. campus. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/state-officials-issue-formal-call-hospital-operator-long-island-college-hospital-article-1.1332589#ixzz2dAxS6skC -
De Blasio calls for community partnership to keep LICH open
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Judge orders LICH Maintain Staff Levels
Judge Johnny Lee Baynes signs an order saying LICH should maintain staffing on par with what it was before SUNY first moved to close it earlier this year. Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/nyregion/in-brooklyn-long-island-college-hospital-staff-gets-reprieve.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0 -
LICH Diverts Ambulances, Transfers Patients From Critical Care Units
SUNY Downstate begins diverting ambulances from and transferring patients in critical care units out of LICH. Read more: http://brooklyn.ny1.com/content/news/184206/lich-diverts-ambulances--transfers-patients-from-critical-care-units#sthash.Kfv2xUuh.dpuf -
De Blasio, Nurses, Health Care Workers, Community Activists Urge Governor Cuomo to Personally Intervene to Save L.I.C.H. and Interfaith Medical Center
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio stood with doctors, nurses, healthcare providers and community activists today and called on Governor Andrew Cuomo to personally intervene on behalf of Brooklyn’s safety-net hospitals. Read the letter: http://advocate.nyc.gov/news/2013-07-07/de-blasio-nurses-health-care-workers-community-activists-urge-governor-cuomo-persona -
De Blasio Arrested for Civil Disobedience
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio joined healthcare workers and nurses in civil disobedience outside of SUNY’s midtown offices. Read more: http://advocate.nyc.gov/news/2013-07-10/statement-public-advocate-de-blasio-civil-disobedience-hospital-protest -
De Blasio Demands SUNY Release All Responses to Save or Sell Long Island College Hospital
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio held a press conference calling on SUNY to release the full details of all seven responses to develop Long Island College Hospital—only six of which would ensure maintaining health care services on the site without selling off valuable assets to real estate developers. Read more: http://advocate.nyc.gov/news/2013-07-11/photos-video-de-blasio-demands-suny-release-all-responses-save-or-sell-long-island-c -
De Blasio Secures Temporary Restraining Order to Block Closure of Long Island College Hospital
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio successfully petitions a judge for a Temporary Restraining Order blocking the closure of LICH, on the grounds the hospital cannot overrule the medical counsel of doctors and nurses demanding the hospital remain open to serve patients. Read more: http://advocate.nyc.gov/LICH -
De Blasio Calls for End to Ambulance Diversions
In a letter to FDNY Commissioner Cassano, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio calls for an end to unnecessary ambulance diversions, which are prohibited by the court order. Read the letter: http://advocate.nyc.gov/news/2013-07-20/de-blasio-suny-violation-judges-restraining-order-keep-long-island-college-hospital- -
State Appellate Judge Upholds De Blasio's Temporary Restraining Order to Keep LICH Open
An appellate court judge upheld the Temporary Restraining Order secured by Public Advocate Bill de Blasio to keep L.I.C.H. open. According to this latest decision, SUNY must “maintain the level of services at Long Island College Hospital being provided…as of 4:00 pm on July 19, 2013.” Read more: http://advocate.nyc.gov/news/2013-07-23/lich-update-state-appellate-judge-upholds-de-blasios-temporary-restraining-order-kee -
New Analysis Shows 250,000 Impacted by Hospital Closures
A new report released by Public Advocate Bill de Blasio finds a quarter million Brooklynites would be forced to travel farther to the nearest hospital and emergency room if Long Island College Hospital and Interfaith Medical Center close their doors. Read more: http://advocate.nyc.gov/hospitals -
De Blasio Releases Plan to Save Brooklyn's Ailing Hospitals
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio calls for the creation of a Brooklyn Health Authority, with sweeping powers to transform hospitals to sustain them for the long haul. Read more: http://advocate.nyc.gov/healthcare -
Brooklyn Civic Groups Join De Blasio Lawsuit to Keep LICH Open
Six of Brooklyn’s leading civic organizations have signed on as co-plaintiffs in his lawsuit to keep Long Island College Hospital open. Read more: http://advocate.nyc.gov/news/2013-08-02/brooklyn-civic-groups-join-de-blasio-lawsuit-keep-long-island-college-hospital-open -
New Analysis Shows LICH Closure Would Push Red Hook's Access to Health Care from Bad to Worse
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio released a new analysis of Red Hook’s access to nearby hospitals, showing that one of the city’s most underserved communities will fare far worse if Long Island College Hospital closes. Currently, no point in Red Hook is less than a mile from the nearest emergency room. But those distances—already unacceptable—will increase dramatically without L.I.C.H. Read more: http://advocate.nyc.gov/news/2013-08-06/de-blasio-closing-lich-would-push-red-hooks-access-health-car -
Court Order Secured to Maintain and Monitor Services at LICH
Public Advocate de Blasio, NYSNA, Physicians, 1199 SEIU, and civic groups in the legal action to keep LICH open secured a major victory with a court order that binds SUNY and the State Department of Health to remove impediments to medical care and will appoint an independent monitor to assure compliance. Read more: http://advocate.nyc.gov/LICH-order -
SUNY Downstate Ordered to Return LICH Assets
Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Demarest found that the SUNY Downstate violated a contractual obligation in the asset transfer of LICH property and has ordered that LICH assets be transferred back to the hospital. Read more: http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/suny-downstate-must-return-lich-assets-brooklyn-judge-rules-2013-08-20-200000 -
De Blasio & Civic Groups File Legal Action to Intervene in Case Selecting New L.I.C.H. Operator
Following successful legal action that restored critical services at LICH Public Advocate Bill de Blasio and six Brooklyn civic groups file a new motion in court to ensure the local community is involved in determining the next owner of Long Island College Hospital. Read more: http://advocate.nyc.gov/LICH-update -
State Supreme Court Justice Baynes invalidates the closure plan for L.I.C.H.
On September 12th, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, the New York State Nurses Association, 1199SEIU, Concerned Physicians at L.I.C.H. and six Brooklyn civic groups won a decisive decision in their lawsuits to keep Long Island College Hospital open. The decision issued by State Supreme Court Justice Johnny Lee Baynes invalidates the closure plan for Long Island College Hospital, assuring the facility will remain open for care. Read more at: http://advocate.nyc.gov/news/2013-09-13/de-blasio-health
