By Claude Scales Special to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Roughly 100 Cobble Hill residents gathered at the Cobble Hill Health Center Tuesday night for a meeting called by the Cobble Hill Association (CHA) to discuss the plans revealed to date by Fortis Property Group for the Long Island College Hospital (LICH) site. CHA President Roy … Read More →
Fortis to develop site of former Long Island College Hospital Guidelines for the future development of the former site of Long Island College Hospital (LICH) will be the hot topic at the spring general meeting of the Cobble Hill Association (CHA). The meeting takes place on Monday, May 18 at 7:30 p.m. at Cobble Hill … Read More →
NYU Lutheran and its Board of Trustees will host its 132nd Annual Dinner Dance on May 16 at 6:30 p.m. The Venetian Carnival-themed gala will be held at Pier Sixty, Chelsea Piers in Manhattan. As Lutheran Health Care’s primary fundraiser, the annual event celebrates Lutheran’s 132-year legacy of providing quality care to the communities of … Read More →
World-Renowned Leader in Hip Replacement Joins Brooklyn Physician Team The Brooklyn Hospital Center (TBHC) and interim President and CEO Jonathan Weld announced this week that Dr. Joseph Fetto has been named the hospital’s chief of orthopaedics. Prior to joining TBHC, Dr. Fetto was a clinical associate professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at NYU … Read More →
SUNY’s Carone: Doc group ‘discredited’ The state Supreme Court’s Appellate Division in Brooklyn Heights on Friday dismissed the appeal of a doctors group seeking to block the sale of Long Island College Hospital (LICH) to a developer. The Concerned Physicians of LICH had hoped to overturn the State University of New York’s (SUNY) decision to … Read More →
Designed to prevent hospital closure debacles like Brooklyn’s LICH A bill that would allow for a greater community voice when hospitals are threatened with closure is scheduled for a vote on Wednesday in the New York State Senate. Called the LICH Act, the measure is meant to ensure that what happened to Brooklyn’s Long Island … Read More →
Lessons learned from closure of historic Brooklyn hospital A bill meant to ensure that what happened to Brooklyn’s Long Island College Hospital (LICH) never happens again to another hospital in New York is poised for consideration in the NYS Senate. State Sen. Daniel Squadron (Greenpoint, Cobble Hill, Lower Manhattan) has filed a procedural motion that … Read More →
By Ciril Godec, MD For Brooklyn Daily Eagle Recently my wife and I were invited to celebrate the 100th Birthday party of one of my patients. She was one of my first patients shortly after we moved from Minnesota to New York. I performed surgery on her more than thirty years ago (it was not … Read More →
Jonathan Weld to serve during search for Dr. Becker’s replacement A trustee of The Brooklyn Hospital Center, Jonathan M. Weld, will be taking over as interim president and chief executive officer of the hospital on Sunday, March 1. Weld will serve while the board continues its search for a successor to departing CEO Dr. Richard … Read More →