BULLETIN: LICH IS DEAD
It's over. Cuomo's health department pulls the plug.
The New York State Department of Health has approved the closing of LICH.
The hospital will be dead before the end of the month.
Staff have been told they will be terminated within the next 30 days.
Officials of the State University of New York, which operates both LICH and the Downstate Medical Center in East Flatbush, had been telling reporters over the last 24 hours that there was no plan to close LICH immediately — despite the fact that SUNY had submitted just such a plan to the department of health of Wednesday, as revealed in today DOH statement (reprinted below).