Community Forum Announced For Long Island College Hospital

While many in Brooklyn will try to win someone's heart Thursday evening, LICH activists have tasked themselves with mending their own this Valentine's Day.

Following a vote by SUNY Downstate board members to close the Cobble Hill hospital and sell its property for real-estate development, members of the New York State Nurses Association, 1199SEIU, and the Cobble Hill, Brooklyn Heights, Boerum Hill and Carroll Garden Neighborhood Associations will gather at the Kane Street Synagogue to discuss how to persuade the Department of Health to keep the medical facility open.

Organizers stated in a release:

If you’ve been reading the news, you’ve probably heard that LICH is at risk of closing. SUNY Downstate, which owns LICH, and real estate developers have decided that our community hospital is worth more dead than alive.  But Brooklyn elected leaders, nurses, doctors, and allies have joined together to keep LICH open because it is vital to our community. 

Come to this important community meeting to learn more about how we can work together to save LICH.

A community forum about Long Island College Hospital (LICH) will be held on Thursday, Feb. 14 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Kane Street Synagogue, located at 236 Kane Street between Court and Clinton streets.

For more information, contact Michelle Green at 718-714-8863 or michelle.green@nysna.org.