State University of New York Downstate has been ordered to partially restore services at Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn, according to a report on NY1.
The financially troubled hospital was set to close July 29, although mayoral hopeful Bill de Blasio received a court order to keep the hospital open temporarily.
The hospital now must resume all services that were available July 19 when the hospital's closure plan was approved, including inpatient and emergency services, according to the report.
At a press conference, Mr. de Blasio expressed concern SUNY would not comply with the court order to stop the closure: "SUNY has violated the temporary restraining order time and time again. And no matter what we said publicly, SUNY ignored the judge's requirements. We constantly had to run over to the hospital to stand up for the patients, to stand up for the employees as SUNY took away yet another service," he said, according to the NY1 report.
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