Despite court order, SUNY Downstate to shut down LICH emergency room Thursday
A state judge on Wednesday ordered SUNY Downstate to maintain staffing levels at Long Island College Hospital (LICH) after hearing complaints that SUNY intended to pull out crucial residents this weekend.
But the order may not have come in time to stop SUNY from shutting down LICH’s emergency room. (An update to this story can be found here.)
Attorneys for Concerned Physicians of LICH, NYS Nurses Association and Local 1199 “made a persuasive argument about SUNY [Downstate’s] violations of the previous temporary restraining order (TRO) issued,” Dr. Toomas M. Sorra, spokesperson for Concerned Physicians of LICH, told the Brooklyn Eagle via email late Wednesday.