Updates from the Public Advocate on LICH, Interfaith Closures

LICH Lawsuit


On Friday, plaintiffs in a legal action to keep the doors open at Cobble Hill's Long Island College Hospital got a court order against SUNY and the State Department of Health forcing the defendants to stop interfering with the provision of medical services and appointing an independent monitor to make sure they comply.

For weeks, SUNY had been cutting back medical services,