Nursing Program at LICH Gets Cut

Though in order to avoid potentially closing the facility, the joining of the two institutions has resulted in one negative side-effect.

According to the Brooklyn Paper, the Nursing School at LICH is being closed. The article says LICH, now called the University Hospital of Brooklyn at Long Island College Hospital, cancelled the program abruptly.

The "Cobble Hill institution quietly revealed this week that it had eliminated its incoming freshman class just six weeks before would-be students were supposed to begin classes."

“These are our lives and it seems like they don’t care,” Carolyn Faulknor, whose classes would have begun in late August, told the Brooklyn Paper. “I was counting on this.”

Students and applicants are now circulating a petition calling for the program to be re-instated.

"SUNY Downstate's decision to stop admissions is unfair to the applicants and those in the LICH Community," wrote one signer Kimone McLeod.

SUNY Downstate spokesman Ronald Najman said students would get application fees back.

“We sympathize with them," he said.