SUNY Board Approves Recommended Closure of Long Island College Hospital
Feb 8, 2013
For Immediate Release: Friday, Feb. 8, 2013
Contact: Ron Najman; rnajman@downstate.edu; 718-270-2696; 917-842-1901
The State University of New York Board of Trustees today voted to support a decision
by SUNY Downstate Medical Center leadership to seek approval from the state Department
of Health to cease operation of University Hospital of Brooklyn at Long Island College
Hospital (LICH) as a full-service inpatient hospital facility.
Link to the SUNY press release: SUNY LICH Closure Article
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About SUNY Downstate Medical Center
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, founded in 1860, was the first medical school in the United States to bring teaching out of the lecture hall and to the patient’s bedside. A center of innovation and excellence in research and clinical service delivery, SUNY Downstate Medical Center comprises a College of Medicine, College of Nursing, School of Health Professions, a School of Graduate Studies, School of Public Health, University Hospital of Brooklyn, and a multifaceted biotechnology initiative including the Downstate Biotechnology Incubator and BioBAT for early-stage and more mature companies, respectively.
SUNY Downstate ranks twelfth nationally in the number of alumni who are on the faculty of American medical schools. More physicians practicing in New York City have graduated from SUNY Downstate than from any other medical school.