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Bill de Blasio, then a New York City mayoral candidate, joins health care workers from the SEIU-1199 union in a rally to urge Gov. Cuomo to save Long Island College Hospital and Interfaith Medical Center in Brooklyn July 7.
With Interfaith Medical Center in turmoil and its future uncertain, union workers and others rallied Sunday at the Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, hospital to oppose its closure.
Interfaith nearly shuttered in December, surviving thanks to a last-minute infusion in state funds. It was set to remain open until March, but that timeline is in jeopardy.
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Some funds have not been released, with the state Dormitory Authority slamming a recent decision by the hospital’s board to continue running its own medical clinics rather than turning them over to Kingsbrook Medical Center as planned.
“Interfaith has refused to transfer the clinics, which not only will cause Interfaith the immediate loss of $ 7.5 million in badly needed funding . . . but jeopardizes the ability of Interfaith to continue to operate,” a lawyer for the Dormitory Authority wrote in a letter last Friday.
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Interfaith CEO Patrick Sullivan stepped down last Friday as workers protested his order that ambulances be turned away from the emergency room.
“This is the most underserved community in terms of health care,” said Diane Porter of the Brooklyn-based IM Foundation. “It’s inconceivable the state would allow (Interfaith) to close.”
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