LICH staff calls cops as SUNY Downstate attempts to remove patients
LICH patients caught in healthcare tug-of-war
Cash-strapped SUNY Downstate Medical Center attempted to remove patients from Long Island College Hospital (LICH) on Saturday despite a new court order forbidding their removal, according to Public Advocate Bill de Blasio and nurses at LICH.
Hospital staff called the NYPD twice over the weekend to enforce the Temporary Restraining Order (TRO).
A spokesman for SUNY Downstate, Steven Greenberg, told the New York Times that no attempts had been made to move patients on Saturday. The Brooklyn Eagle, however, photographed an elderly patient being wheeled on a stretcher outside the hospital on Saturday afternoon. It was not clear where she was being transported to.