SUDDEN DEATH: Long Island College Hospital could close ‘imminently’ — it’s ‘worth more dead than alive’
Long Island College Hospital (LICH) in Cobble Hill could close “imminently,” sources told the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
A spokesman for State University of New York (SUNY) chairman Carl McCall confirmed that SUNY trustees have discussed closing LICH, the Daily News and the New York Times reported late Wednesday night.
Speculation that LICH would close have been swirling across Brooklyn all week. An insider told the Brooklyn Eagle that the hospital was “worth more dead than alive.”
SUNY Downstate Medical Center in East Flatbush, itself financially troubled, acquired LICH in 2011.