Two hospital groups have expressed interest in taking over the slated-for-closure Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn — but any potential deal has been stymied by SUNY Downstate’s refusal to open their books, according to a LICH doctor association.
Representatives from Hackensack University Medical Center and North Shore-Long Island Jewish Medical Center discussed a takeover with LICH doctors, spokesmen for the two hospital groups confirmed. SUNY Downstate wants to shutter the 506-bed Cobble Hill hospital.
“Everybody would love to have a suitor . . . but I don’t think that will happen until there’s more information [from SUNY] on the financial front,” said Dr. Toomas Sorra, president of Concerned Physicians of LICH. A SUNY spokesman said financial figures for the hospital are publicly available.