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Auxiliary members donate $60,000 to Lutheran Medical Center

Lutheran Medical Center will be able to install a new piece of medical equipment in the operating rooms thanks to a $60,000 donation from the hospital’s auxiliary. … Full Article

Ideas offered at meeting to save SUNY Downstate

As death threatens gay men, LGBT communities fight meningitis outbreak in Brooklyn

Bay Ridgeites look forward to buying farm-fresh food at Greenmarket

'For-profit’ hospital in Brooklyn shot down in state budget

In the final budget round, state lawmakers and Governor Andrew Cuomo have dropped a controversial proposal designed to bring an experimental for-pro … Full Article

SUNY votes — again — to kill Brooklyn’s LICH

Cobble Hill

Despite impassioned statements from hospital staff, patients and community members, SUNY’s board of trustees voted on Tuesday to close Brooklyn’s Long Island College Hospital (LICH), at a meeting in Purchase, New York. … Full Article

Is there a doctor in the house? Not enough physicians, lawmakers say

Bay Ridge

There is a growing medical crisis in the U.S. having to do with a shortage of doctors, according to a group of lawmakers, who said the problem will become a full-blown emergency unless something is done about it. … Full Article

One-Stop-Shop medical center to open in Bensonhurst

Bensonhurst

A new medical facility, hailed by its developers as a “one-stop-shop” place for patients seeking health care, is set to open in Bensonhurst within the next few weeks, officials said. … Full Article

Buses to roll in Brooklyn for Tuesday’s LICH hearing in Purchase

Cobble Hill

Long Island College Hospital (LICH) supporters are renting buses to travel to Purchase, New York on Tuesday, to speak out against the controversial closure of the Cobble Hill hospital at the SUNY board’s … Full Article