Metro

Hospital still breathing after ruling

Teetering Long Island College Hospital is still alive after a Manhattan Supreme Court judge nullified the state’s approval of its closure.

Justice Johnny Baynes found that Department of Health regulations governing notice of hospital closures — which were violated in the LICH case anyway — are “unconstitutionally vague” and must be rewritten.

The ruling at least temporarily protects the Brooklyn hospital, one of several that Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has rallied to save and made central to his mayoral campaign.