Mayor de Blasio weighs in on NYU’s exit from LICH deal
Prime Healthcare still ‘interested in saving LICH’
Mayor Bill de Blasio weighed in on Friday on the unraveling of the deal to provide health care at the site of Long Island College Hospital (LICH), after NYU-Langone’s surprise announcement that it had withdrawn from the transaction.
“We are heartened that today emergency services are still being provided to the community at LICH,” de Blasio spokesperson Phillip Walzak said late Friday afternoon. “Yet the fact remains that SUNY must live up to its responsibility to ensure that people who relied on LICH in the past will continue to have access to the care they need.”
With NYU’s exit, community members had sought reassurance that LICH’s walk-in emergency department, currently operated by SUNY, would remain open.
LICH’s doors remained open on Friday, and a staff member said he expected they would stay that way for the time being.