LICH supporters slam SUNY’s search for new hospital owner
Unusual RFI has ‘more holes than Swiss cheese’
State University of New York’s (SUNY) search for an entity to take over Long Island College Hospital (LICH) may be designed to fail, warned LICH supporters Thursday night at the Cobble Hill Association’s community forum to discuss the future of the 150-year-old hospital.
The nearly bankrupt (SUNY) issued a public Request for Information (RFI) on Wednesday to signal its intent to find another operators to take over LICH.
But the RFI has “more holes than Swiss cheese,” said Jerry Armer, the 76 Precinct Community Council President and long-time community activist. “And the holes are designed for a developer to use this land as something else.”
The RFI calls for an operator who could provide health care services either “on the [LICH] campus or in the community around” the hospital, leaving open the possibility that some or all of the valuable Brownstone Brooklyn real estate could be sold.