With Interfaith on verge of closing, leaders call on DOH to consider restructuring plan
LICH remains open
Brooklyn is in the midst of an “epidemic of hospital closures,” Public Advocate Bill de Blasio said at a Borough Hall press conference on Friday, as the news spread that Interfaith Medical Center could close at any moment.
De Blasio joined community advocates and hospital staff from Interfaith Medical Center and Long Island College Hospital (LICH) to support a restructuring plan for Interfaith and call on the state Department of Health to work on a plan that would keep both Brooklyn hospitals open.
Interfaith, the only full-service hospital in Bedford-Stuyvesant, submitted a closure plan to the state Department of Health on July 25, along with a revision of an earlier restructuring plan which had been rejected.