DeBlasio Granted Intervenor Status in LICH Lawsuit

A State Supreme Court Justice has granted Public Advocate and Democratic mayoral contender Bill deBlasio’s motion to intervene in a case that will determine the next operator of Cobble Hill's Long Island College Hospital.

Justice Carolyn Demarest ruled last week that deBlasio and a group of Brooklyn civic organizations, including Boerum Hill Association, Carroll Gardens Neighborhood

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LICH Closure Plan Invalidated

In a decision that City Council Member Letitia James called a "huge victory for the patients, workers and the broader community", New York State Supreme Court Justice Johnny Lee Baynes has invalidated the state's closure plan for Long Island College Hospital in Cobble Hill, assuring that the facility will remain open for care.

The lawsuit to keep L.I.C.H. open was filed by Public Advocate Bill

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Ambulances No Longer Diverted from LICH

According to an email blast today from city Public Advocate and Democratic mayoral candidate Bill beBlasio, ambulances, diverted from Cobble Hill's Long Island Hospital since June 20 due to an effort by the State Department of Health and operator SUNY Downstate to shut down the hospital, are taking patients to LICH again.

DeBlasio made the announcement at a press conference today with local

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The Widening Battle for LICH

Having restored critical medical services at Cobble Hill's embattled Long Island College Hospital, Public Advocate and Democratic Mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio and six Brooklyn civic groups filed a motion in State Supreme Court today to ensure that the community would have a voice in any sale of the hospital to a new operator.

Last week, SUNY's sale of LICH was voided by a State Supreme

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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,

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For Red Hook, Losing LICH Would Double Trip to ER

According to a new analysis of hospital access from Sandy-ravaged Red Hook released by Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, this already under-served neighborhood could see the distance to the nearest emergency room double if Cobble Hill's Long Island College Hospital closes.

L.I.C.H. is roughly 1.5 miles from Red Hook. The next-closest hospitals are New York Methodist Hospital, 2 miles away in

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DeBlasio: LICH Coded

Update 7/20/13

According to an email blast today from deBlasio, SUNY is violating the temporary restraining order issued by State Supreme Court Justice Baynes yesterday by continuing to divert ambulances and trying to move patients out of LICH.

De Blasio has demanded that SUNY comply with the terms of the TRO. Hospital staff, responding to SUNY's attempts to move their patients out of LICH,

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Chaos at LICH

As NY 1 reported yesterday, hospital operator SUNY
Downstate, violating a temporary restraining order issued in April by Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Johnny Lee Baynes, is turning ambulances away and moving patients out of critical care units at Downtown Brooklyn's embattled Long Island College
Hospital.

According to NY 1 sources, two dozen doctors and other essential medical staff have

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