Mayor de Blasio calls on SUNY to ditch BHP, open negotiations with additional bidders for LICH in Brooklyn
Mayor de Blasio on Wednesday afternoon lobbed a bomb onto the ongoing negotiations over the ownership of Long Island College Hospital (LICH) in Brooklyn.
With less than a week to go until the signing deadline, the Mayor called on SUNY to drop negotiations with Brooklyn Health Partners, the California-based group that submitted the winning bid for LICH, and “open negotiations with additional bidders to preserve quality, uninterrupted health care services at Long Island College Hospital.”
“Our mission is to save and protect continuous, high-level health care at Long Island College Hospital, and this is the heart of the agreement made between SUNY and the community earlier this year,” Mayor de Blasio said in a statement.