Settlement assures dramatic downsizing for LICH

Dan Goldberg

For the second time in three months, a legal settlement that paves the way for SUNY to rid itself of Long Island College Hospital has been reached.

This latest agreement, which allows some health care to remain on site but closes most of the hospital, was announced with far less fanfare than the one celebrated at City Hall three months ago.

That February day was billed by Mayor Bill de Blasio as “transcendent” and “historic" as hopes were kept alive that LICH would remain a full service hospital.

Thursday was described as “a day of pain.”

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