NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Friday, May 2, 2014, 5:51 AM
Long Island College Hospital is having another near-death experience.
The outfit that won the bid to save the venerable Brooklyn facility has accused the State University of New York, which owns the money-losing hospital, of sabotaging its efforts.
Brooklyn Health Partners, in a lawsuit, charged that when it proposed bringing in a temporary operator to keep the hospital going after SUNY gives up control on May 22, “SUNY immediately threatened to end negotiations with BHP.”
The BHP motion will be heard Friday in Brooklyn State Supreme Court.
A spokesman for SUNY insisted the university was acting in good faith and that it still expects BHP to come up with the required $ 25 million downpayment by the Monday deadline.
Mayor de Blasio had promised to save the hospital when he was running for mayor. But on Wednesday, he expressed doubt that BHP would be able to deliver and asked SUNY to begin talks with other bidders.
The runner-up bid was from Peebles Corp., whose plan does not call for the full-service hospital at the site that de Blasio and the unions representing the workers had been insisting on.
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