Revised Proposal for LICH unveiled amid dire warnings
With a backdrop of threats to SUNY institutions and dire predictions, a revised proposal to purchase Long Island College Hospital (LICH) that now includes two well-respected health institutions was displayed at a SUNY Board of Trustees meeting on Monday.
The original proposal, submitted by Fortis Property Group, would have leased the hospital’s main building to ProHealth for a “medical mall” and developed the other LICH buildings as condos.
In the revised proposal, Fortis would partner with NYU Langone Medical Center and Brooklyn’s own Lutheran Medical Center.
NYU, according to a chart displayed at the meeting, would provide a freestanding emergency room, an urgent care center, a radiology and diagnostic center and six specialty centers: primary care, cardiology, gastroenterology, pulmonary, orthopedics, physiatry and cancer care.