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SUNY Downstate to Slash Jobs, but LICH May Gain

By on May 9, 2012 in Health, News

SUNY Downstate Medical Center, which took control of Long Island College Hospital last June, faces an operating deficit and will have to eliminate jobs and close or combine some operations.

New York Post: SUNY Downstate Medical Center announced tonight that it will have to perform extensive “financial” surgery to slash jobs and eliminate redundant services at its three medical facilities to stem red ink.

The scalpel will be used at University Hospital in Flatbush, Long Isand College hospital in Brooklyn Heights and its facility at the former Victory Hospital site in Bay Ridge. Continue Reading →

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Cruise Ship Air Pollution Response Stalled

By on April 4, 2012 in Government, Health, News, Red Hook

A year ago, Mayor Bloomberg announced a deal to eliminate air pollution resulting from cruise ships having to run their diesel generators to supply power while docked at the Red Hook terminal. Under the agreement, the parties involved: the Port Authority, the suppliers and distributors of electricity, and the cruise line, would share the cost of installing and maintaining equipment allowing ships to take power from shoreside. Now, it appears, that deal has collapsed, and local residents will have to continue to breathe fumes from the ships’ generators.

New York Daily News Cruise ships docked in Brooklyn continue to choke Red Hook with their fumes — despite a widely touted deal a year ago that was supposed to solve the problem. Continue Reading →

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P.S. 29 on List of Schools With Hazardous PCB Laden Lighting Fixtures

By on December 7, 2011 in Education, Health, News

We’ve received word from the office of Congressman Jerrold Nadler that P.S. 29 is on the list of schools, compiled by the City’s School Construction Authority, that have old lighting fixtures containing polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs. These are carcinogens, and are considered especially hazardous to pregnant women. According to Dr. Maida Galvez, Director of the EPA Region 2 Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit, “The bottom line is that there’s no safe level of [PCB] exposure in pregnancy, period.” There’s more information here.

Next Monday, December 12 at 10:00 a.m., Congressman Nadler, along with representatives of New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, NARAL, Planned Parenthood NYC and others, will assemble on the steps of City Hall to demand action to relieve this hazard to public health. For more information, contact kterenzi@NYLPI.org

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Debra Carey Named Interim CEO of LICH

By on July 8, 2011 in Health, News

According to the Eagle, Debra D. Carey, CEO of SUNY Downstate Medical Center University Hospital of Brooklyn, will also serve as interim CEO of University Hospital of Brooklyn at Long Island College Hospital, the ponderous name of what we will always know as LICH, following the departure at the end of July of LICH’s interim president, Dominick Stanzione. LICH is now part of the SUNY Downstate family of hospitals, and Ms. Carey will divide her time between SUNY Downstate Medical Center University Hospital of Brooklyn in Flatbush and LICH until a new full-time chief administrator for LICH can be found. Continue Reading →

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LICH Community Health Day Saturday

By on June 15, 2011 in Arts and Entertainment, Health

This Saturday, June 18, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Long Island College Hospital will hold its Community Health Day at Henry Street Park, on Henry Street between Amity and Pacific Streets. This event will feature free health screenings, a CPR for kids demonstration, opportunity to meet LICH physicians, a tour of the pediatric emergency room, clowns and face painting, light refreshments, and, at 12:00 noon, a children’s sing-along and music. For more information, contact Natasha Burke at (718) 780-2860. The rain date is Saturday, June 25.

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LICH/SUNY Merger Now Official

By on June 7, 2011 in Health, News

This in from University Hospital of Brooklyn at Long Island College Hospital (that’s the new official name; I’m calling it Shea):

We are pleased to announce that Long Island College Hospital (LICH) is now officially part of the State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center’s University Hospital of Brooklyn (UHB). The unprecedented joining of a community, not-for-profit teaching hospital with a university-based, publicly supported academic teaching hospital provides education, clinical care, research breakthroughs, and employment to the communities of Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Red Hook and beyond. Continue Reading →

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Cruise Ship Terminal to Supply Shore Power, Ending Diesel Fumes from Idling Ships

By on April 13, 2011 in Health, Maritime, News, Red Hook

Mayor Bloomberg will announce today an agreement among the Port Authority, as operator of the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in Red Hook, the New York Power Authority, and Carnival Cruise Lines, operator of Queen Mary 2 and other ships using the Terminal, under which electric power will be supplied to ships while in port from the land-based distribution grid. This will end the practice of using the ships’ auxiliary diesel powered generators while docked in order to produce power, and will greatly reduce the amount of pollutants spewed into the local atmosphere. Continue Reading →

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LICH Saved!

By on February 12, 2011 in Government, Health, News

According to a report on NY1, after meeting with elected officials in Brooklyn last night, Cuomo administration offficials have agreed to release the grant money that will allow the merger of Long Island College Hospital with SUNY Downstate Medical Center, thereby assuring that LICH will remain open. Addendum: The politicians involved are identified in the text of Senator Squadron’s press release, after the jump.

Thanks to Brooklyn Heights Blog reader Mike for the tip. Continue Reading →

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LICH Asks For Support From Local Citizens

By on February 11, 2011 in Government, Health

LICH has asked that concerned citizens contact political officeholders whose influence would be helpful in getting New York State to release the funds needed to bring its merger with SUNY Downstate to fruition. A list of these officeholders, with contact information, and a list of talking points supplied by LICH, follows the jump. Continue Reading →

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Squadron, Millman, Lander Urge Action to Save LICH

By on February 10, 2011 in Government, Health, News

This in from State Senator Daniel Squadron:

The deal to save Long Island College Hospital was a huge win for our community, Brooklyn and the state. Simply put, it must move forward. LICH has helped keep Brooklyn healthy for more than 150 years, and it must not be forced to close its doors now. I will continue to work with the governor, my colleagues in government and the hospitals as the merger moves forward. Continue Reading →

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