After a state Supreme Court judge yesterday dismissed a lawsuit seeking to block the facility's closure, Mount Sinai Beth Israel leadership announced a March 26 closing date, according to published reports. (Politico's Maya Kaufman also shared the date in an X post last evening.)
As Gothamist and Crain's reported, Judge Jeffrey Pearlman tossed the lawsuit filed in August by a community coalition challenging the closing.
As previously reported, Mount Sinai must operate a new 24/7 urgent care center near the hospital on First Avenue at 16th Street for at least three months and reach an agreement with New York City Health + Hospitals to invest in expanding Bellevue Hospital's emergency room and psychiatric emergency department.
In an employee memo shared with Becker's: "This date will allow us to ramp down the facility in a manner that is seamless and safe for patients and staff," said Elizabeth Sellman, president and COO of Mount Sinai Beth Israel.
Arthur Schwartz, the coalition's pro-bono lawyer, said he would appeal the decision and seek a new stay on the closure within 24 hours, per Gothamist.
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Mount Sinai officials have said Beth Israel lost $1 billion in the last decade, with dwindling cash reserves and reduced bed counts.As someone who has championed the expansion of hospital capacity in NYC as an advocate, and now as Chair of the @NYCCouncil Health Committee, today's court decision is a slap in the face to the community that relies on Beth Israel for their healthcare needs. https://t.co/QXgqrFbQH7
— Lynn Schulman 舒曼琳 (@Lynn4NYC) February 24, 2025
Beth Israel was founded 143 years ago on the Lower East Side and moved to its current location on 16th Street and First Avenue in 1929.
4 comments:
Another little bit of NY history biting the dust. My mother worked at Beth Israel nearly a hundred years ago, perhaps hoping to snag an eligible doctor as a husband. Instead, she fell in love with an impoverished young lifeguard (my father) at the 92nd Street Y. The rest, as someone said, is history!
Maybe I'm misremembering but when St. Vincents in the west village was closed the local pols and the mayor negotiated an emergency hospital to serve the neighborhood. Why is the state/city/local pols letting Mt Sinai close and get nothing in return. How bad are they and how short sighted... considering that we already lost Cabrini some years ago. Expanding Bellevue isn't the answer.
Great the real estate developers win again. Who needs a hospital for sick and injured people when we can have more $3,000 + luxury apartments for people who can afford them.
Uh, so where's our ER now?
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