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LICH Lives Another Day; SUNY Delays Sale of Hospital

SUNY board tables plan to turn LICH into condos and urgent care center.

Long Island College Hospital supporters who have been fighting tooth and nail to save the facility over the past year rejoiced Tuesday after the SUNY board voted to delay the sale of the hospital.

SUNY officials announced Monday that a developer proposed to buy the property and lease off parts to create urgent care facilities while turning the rest of the buildings into condominiums. 

In a surprise turn of events, however, SUNY officials tabled a resolution that would have allowed them to begin negotiations of a deal with Fortis Property Group, according to a report in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

"While I am still very concerned about the future of Long Island College Hospital, I am pleasantly surprised by SUNY’s decision to table their motion to enter into negotiations to sell the hospital," councilman Stephen Levin, a staunch supporter of LICH, said in a statement.
Click here to read a full report from the meeting in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle.


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