HUNT BEGINS FOR LICH SAVIOR: SUNY issues ‘Request for Information’
Board met Wednesday to discuss future of facilities at Downstate and LICH
The State University of New York’s (SUNY) issued a public Request for Information (RFI) on Wednesday, to formally solicit interest from hospital operators or others to take over Long Island College Hospital (LICH) in Cobble Hill.
SUNY’s plan to close LICH was scuttled last Friday after months of protests, political and legal activism and media coverage. SUNY Downstate Medical Center, in dire financial condition, acquired LICH two years ago from Continuum Health Partners.
SUNY said in the RFI that they’re looking for “hospital operators, healthcare providers, and qualified parties who could provide health care services, including operation of an acute care hospital, at or around the Long Island College Hospital (LICH) site in Brooklyn.“
While the health care facilities or services can be provided either “on the campus or in the community around” the hospital, the LICH campus should be developed “for beneficial community purposes that may support health care services in the community,” according to the RFI.