Sale of LICH real estate may fund new SUNY hospital in central Brooklyn
Financially troubled SUNY Downstate wants to build a brand-new hospital in East Flatbush to replace it’s crumbling University Hospital, Crain’s New York Pulse has reported.
The new hospital’s construction would be funded by the proceeds of selling 150-year-old Long Island College Hospital (LICH) in Cobble Hill.
The hospital could be run as a for-profit. On January 25, Gov. Cuomo proposed a budget which included a pilot program that would allow business corporations to own and operate two hospitals in New York State, one to be located in Kings County.