NEW YORK (AP) - Community advocates who wanted a financially strapped Brooklyn hospital to remain full-service have given up their fight.
An agreement Thursday ends lawsuits over the fate of Long Island College Hospital.
A group of real estate and health companies negotiating to buy the Cobble Hill facility says it will use a needs assessment to determine the services it provides.
They’re offering the state university system $260 million for the 6.2-acre campus.
They’ve proposed keeping an emergency department, outpatient care including cancer treatment and dental, pediatric and geriatric services.
Under Thursday’s agreement, SUNY will outsource walk-in emergency services to a provider within the bidding group starting next Tuesday.
The agreement says ambulances might not return to until mid-July.
State officials say the hospital has been losing an “unsustainable” $13 million a month.
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