SUNY asks for another week to restore ambulances, ICU to LICH
Former LICH doctors ‘Want to come back’
SUNY Downstate has asked Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Carolyn Demarest for another week to reopen the Intensive Care Unit, restore full operation of the Emergency Department and restore ambulance service to Long Island College Hospital (LICH) in Cobble Hill.
“We’ve asked the judge for more time and are in conversations with the physicians’ group to identify doctors for safe staffing,” SUNY spokesperson Robert Bellafiore told the Brooklyn Eagle on Monday.
Justice Demarest had ordered on Friday that SUNY Downstate must work with Concerned Physicians of LICH, a group of doctors that has been fighting for years to save the hospital, to restore the above services no later than 3 p.m. on Aug. 26.
“We have to wait and see what the judge says,” Bellafiore added.