EXCLUSIVE: STEPHEN BERGER BACKS CLOSING OF LICH
On Wednesday, Stephen Berger — whose panel last year recommended sacrificing the Downstate Medical Center facility in East Flatbush in favor of Long Island College Hospital in Cobble Hill — sent a letter to SUNY board chairman H. Carl McCall, in which he endorsed the planned closing of LICH in order to save Downstate.
The Brooklyn Eagle is reproducing Berger’s letter in its entirety.
This is in response to your request that I comment on the present situation regarding LICH Hospital and the plan outlined by Dr. Williams in his comments to the SUNY Board of Trustees. In particular you asked that l do so in light of the comments made in the MRT Report of the Brooklyn Working Group.