Brooklyn judge rejects effort to toss out LICH scores
Long Island College Hospital supporters disappointed
State Supreme Court Justice Johnny Lee Baynes on Friday rejected the motion brought by advocates for Long Island College Hospital (LICH) to toss out several “questionable” scores for proposals to buy the historic Cobble Hill hospital.
Brooklyn community groups and doctors wanted Justice Baynes to reject six out of 18 of the rankings. Attorney Jim Walden (Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher) had argued that those rankings did not follow the rules of the state’s RFP, which called for proposals offering to operate LICH as a hospital to get more points than those not including a hospital.
Six of the evaluators ranked proposals not offering hospitals higher than proposals that did. One evaluator — known as “Judge #9” — gave a score of “0” to all hospital proposals, and a perfect score of 70 to Fortis.
According to Capital New York, Judge #9 was William Thompson Sr., a former judge who was asked by Baynes nearly a year ago to help mediate the LICH dispute.