DOH Says No To LICH Closing of Maternity Dept.

Brooklyn Paper had this breaking story about Long Island College Hospital:

The state Department of Health has turned down Long Island College
Hospital’s request to close its maternity, pediatrics and dentistry
divisions in what the hospital’s management company portrayed as a
last-ditch effort to stave off financial ruin at the 150-year-old
medical center, The Brooklyn Paper has learned.

“[The] plan is not acceptable at this time,” James Clyne, the
state’s deputy commissioner for health systems management, wrote on
Monday to the hospital’s overseers, the Manhattan-based Continuum
Health Partners.

“There is insufficient capacity in the hospitals immediately around
LICH and in much of Brooklyn to clearly demonstrate that women will
have appropriate access to obstetrical and maternity care if LICH closes these services," he continued.