Sentences with phrase «lich said»
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Ambulances return to LICH: A «game changer» de Blasio says.
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SUNY board votes unanimously to close LICH; Williams says it's nobody's fault; local pol was «snookered» (Feb. 8):
«She won me over,» he said, lauding her work on gun control and other issues dear to his heart, including the eviction of seniors at the Prospect Park Residence assisted living home and the closure of Long Island College Hospital (LICH).
«The Governor has been a driving force against the community at LICH,» she said.
Hamilton said when the property values stared to rise in Central and Downtown Brooklyn, «all of a sudden» hospital real estate — like that at Long Island College Hospital (LICH)-- became desirable.
«It's cruel to move emergency care and health care so far away from so many people, and what Gov. Cuomo has said is that the future doesn't have room for hospitals like LICH.
«I hope Ms. Teachout talks loud and clear about what was done to LICH and the communities it served,» she said.
Jeanie Segall, part of the skeleton crew remaining at the LICH clinic, said, «I'm so glad there's somebody out there who embodies and wants to support the values that the Democratic Party is supposed to value and support.»
«We've watched you allow your drones to mismanage over $ 100 million» at LICH,» she said.
Some former LICH patients said they also liked Teachout.
«Every leader in this state should be shouting about what Cuomo and his trustees did to LICH, how the community was railroaded, almost 2,000 New Yorkers were put out of work, and a vital medical facility was shut down to benefit wealthy real estate developers and other friends of the Governor,» said Julie Semente, long - time LICH nurse and member of the New York State Nurses Association's executive committee at LICH, speaking on her own behalf.
«We need LICH, and the job of the governor should be not to say all the reasons it doesn't work, but all the ways in it could work,» she said.
SUNY responded to the resolution, citing a $ 4 million monthly loss in operating LICH as their reason for closing the hospital, but added that losing the hospital and medical school «would be tragic,» SUNY said in a letter to the City Council health committee, dated April 23.
Raboy, who has lived in Brooklyn Heights for more than 40 years, said she would have died had it not been for the LICH staff and her close proximity to the hospital.
«Governor Cuomo, this is the time for leadership,» said James, referring to Cuomo's power to prevent LICH from closing.
«This ruling gives us more time to work with the Department of Health, elected officials and community advocates to develop alternative solutions that will keep LICH's vital services and good jobs in the community,» said George Gresham, president of 1199SEIU in a press release, who sought the restraining order along with the New York State Nurses Association, Concerned Physicians of LICH and others.
«What I said to de Blasio, since I worked at LICH for 15 years, is that I'm very sorry that you weren't able to save it but I realize it was a done deal,» said Ronnie Gluck, a retired LICH administrator who said he'd vote for Mr. Sikora.
«Patently false statements and rumors about the immediate closure of LICH obfuscate the truth, which is SUNY's commitment to securing proposals to provide healthcare services in the community,» said Robert Bellafiore, spokesman for SUNY Downstate, which owns LICH, in an statement.
LICH employees have been given «notice of the imminent closure» of the Cobble Hill hospital, Public Advocate and mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio said in a statement.
No hospital in New York State can close without the approval of the Department of Health,» said Bellafiore, adding that SUNY is following their state - approved «sustainability plan,» which would hand over LICH to another healthcare operator.
The judge gave strict orders, and they ignore it,» said Sonia Taylor, a nurse at LICH for 30 years.
Rosa Tavarez, a labor delivery nurse at LICH, said all cases in the hospital's operating room were going to be canceled, according to her supervisor, she said.
As critical staff voluntarily leave the hospital, the administration has reduced hospital services, like diverting ambulances and moving patients and elective surgeries to other facilities, said Bellafiore, adding that there are currently only 18 patients at LICH.
While the hospital's emergency services are still running, it's not admitting any new patients, said Lisa Tabora, an ER nurse at LICH.
«[SUNY officials] don't care about the courts,» said Dr. Alice Garner, who heads the neonatal intensive care unit at LICH.
«No doubt Brooklyn needs more hospitals,» said Jeff Strabone, who fought for years to keep LICH open.
They all said the fight isn't over, and they want LICH to stay for the long term.
Admitting that there «was a big debate» surrounding the idea, he says that his team «have definitely iterated on our quest process, our quest flow, with Burning Crusade and Lich King.»
But this is a world where Glory is earned by killing chickens minding their own business, to say nothing of chopping down liches from other dimensions.
«In the utility industry, it's important to remember there is a lot of skepticism for things that are new,» said Josh Lich, Opower's director of product marketing.
«In many ways they led the way in how to do this, and now there is a template,» said Lich.