There will soon be a new group in charge of Brooklyn’s Long Island College Hospital.
The non-profit Brooklyn Health Partners has won the bid to take over the cashed strapped facility in Cobble Hill.
There has been a long court battle between SUNY Downstate and various community groups over the fate of LICH.
SUNY will still run LICH until the deal is finalized.
The bidding process was opened last month after the case was settled.
According to the bid posted on SUNY’s website, BHP will build a 300 to 400 bed full service hospital.
Construction would begin at least two years after the current LICH is closed.
One of the lawyers for the plaintiffs looking to save LICH said in a statement, “We are quite pleased that the process, though bumpy, produced what we always knew it could: An operator of a full-service hospital. The community is united in making sure it succeeds.”
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