Brooklyn, NY - Court Temporarily Halts LICH Hospital Closing |
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Published on: February 22, 2013 01:05 PM
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Brooklyn, NY - A court has temporarily halted the closing of Brooklyn’s financially strapped Long Island College Hospital.
The New York Times (http://nyti.ms/ZmJaK6 ) says two unions and a doctors’ group are seeking to invalidate a vote by the State University of New York’s board to close the hospital.
The complaint alleges SUNY trustees violated the state’s Open Meetings Law by holding a private committee meeting before the Feb. 8 vote.
The hospital is run by SUNY Downstate Medical Center.
Spokesman Robert Bellafiore says Downstate’s president had the authority to seek state approval to close the hospital without the trustees. He says their vote was merely a “symbolic” show of support.
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Feb 22, 2013 at 12:24 PM DRE53 Says:Report as Inappropriate
What a stupidity.
If the hospital keeps on losing money, how can it stay open? Whoms money will they use to restock on emergency supplies or to repair and maintain equipment.
No supplier or vendor will give the hospital any credit. I can't believe that the trustees have to put their person" guarantee on the bills.
The court should be held responsible if in the middle of an operation the doctor realizes that he can't continue because something is missing or not functioning.
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Feb 22, 2013 at 02:34 PM Torahjew Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ What a stupidity.
If the hospital keeps on losing money, how can it stay open? Whoms money will they use to restock on emergency supplies or to repair and maintain equipment.
No supplier or vendor will give the hospital any credit. I can't believe that the trustees have to put their person" guarantee on the bills.
The court should be held responsible if in the middle of an operation the doctor realizes that he can't continue because something is missing or not functioning. ”
Maybe it is only losing money because suny wants it to so they can sell the prperty for $500 million. What happened to the $75 million the state gave suny to help lich it was pocketed by the trusties. Continuim still does the billing for lich and suny but gives all the proceeds to suny so yea they are losing money not because its not profitable but because of democrat party corruption and that is why the judge put a hold on this scam
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Feb 24, 2013 at 03:05 AM kalman1 Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ Maybe it is only losing money because suny wants it to so they can sell the prperty for $500 million. What happened to the $75 million the state gave suny to help lich it was pocketed by the trusties. Continuim still does the billing for lich and suny but gives all the proceeds to suny so yea they are losing money not because its not profitable but because of democrat party corruption and that is why the judge put a hold on this scam ”
500 million are you out of your mind?