Brooklyn, NY – The closing of a Brooklyn hospital that’s been the subject of much emotional debate has been postponed until at least Sept. 11.
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Interfaith Medical Center was to start shutting down Monday. But mayoral candidate and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio (BLAH’-zee-oh) has asked a federal bankruptcy court to halt the closing. On Monday, the court set the next hearing for Sept. 11.
The state Department of Health acknowledges more time is needed for a carefully planned shutdown.
De Blasio says the postponement will let the hospital try to restructure its failing finances and save critical departments, such as emergency services and psychiatric care.
Since 2000, 19 hospitals across the city have closed due to financial pressures. Interfaith Medical Center serves mostly poor patients from Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights neighborhoods.
What about LICH? ?
It is exciting to read this article. Finally a politician with some common sense and compassion who connects to middle class people like ourselves. Be it nurses, doctors, staff and local citizens that need urgent care. The system failed us all with the closure of LICH.
I’m glad Deblasio teamed up with a high powered and proven attorney, Ed Neiger from ASK LLP who got the job done.
It is about time we the people benefit from the courts and high powered attorneys the way Apple and Samsung do.
This should send waves across the nation and in states as Detroit and other struggling states politicians should turn t
19 hospitals closed since 2009?It is sad to think of the consequences. Nurses, doctors and citizens in emergency situations who could not get the urgent care they needed timely.
Finally we have a political that is compassionate and truly connects to the middle class. I’m glad he teamed up with Edward Neiger, a high powered attorney from ASK LLP to fight this battle.
This case should send a message to politicians in different States.