Not again! SUNY ends admissions, bans ambulances at Long Island College Hospital (LICH)
Nurses: Shut down ‘in the dead of night’
Northwest Brooklyn received a body blow Wednesday night as SUNY Downstate –once again – halted admissions and banned ambulance service to Long Island College Hospital (LICH).
Somber patients, nurses and other staffers gathered outside of the Cobble Hill hospital late Wednesday to hear about the latest salvo in SUNY’s push to shut down LICH.
Employees at the hospital say they were informed by a telephone call from Dr. Michael Lucchesi, Chief Medical Officer at SUNY Downstate and LICH, around 6 p.m. on Wednesday.
Jacqueline Smalling, assistant head nurse in the ER, told the Brooklyn Eagle that Dr. Jones, director of the ER, informed her that Dr. Lucchesi was in the process of obtaining a “complete diversion” of ambulances from FDNY.