Updated 4/9: The Mount Sinai Beth Israel Instagram account states that the facility closed this morning at 8. The emergency department was the last remaining service left at Beth Israel.
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Mount Sinai said it was opening an urgent care center in the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai complex on 14th Street and Second Avenue.
Per NY1:
"This urgent care center has already been constructed and will be ready to take patients prior to the hospital's closing," Mount Sinai said.While Beth Israel is no longer providing inpatient services, its emergency department will continue to accept walk-ins until the hospital closes for good, Mount Sinai added.
As previously reported, Mount Sinai must operate a new 24/7 urgent care center near the hospital 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.
The coalition's pro-bono lawyer, Arthur Schwartz, told NY1 they will file an emergency motion with New York State's Court of Appeals.
Mount Sinai officials have said Beth Israel lost $1 billion in the last decade due to dwindling cash reserves and reduced bed counts.
The 799-bed teaching hospital was initially proposed to close on July 12, 2024.
Beth Israel was founded in 1890 on the Lower East Side and moved to its current location on 16th Street and First Avenue in 1929.
14 comments:
It's definitely time to start brushing up on your first aid skills!
So tragic. Money usurps critical healthcare needs time and time again.
You have NYU 10 blocks up the Avenue. Sorry but you got to huffy it up there to get your quality inpatuent care. With the loss of St. Vincent's and Beth Israel the East and West Village people need to go further for hospital care. Mount Sinai has many medical offices for outpatient care scattered throughout the 14th street corridor, but not overnight in-patient care.
This has never really been an issue re healthcare. This is all about real estate. As I have noted, REBNY runs this town and this state.
Remember how we didn't have enough Intensive Care beds? And how people kept citing the closure of St Vincent's as a huge mistake? yeah, that
What will they do with the building when the hospital is no longer? I suspect another luxury residential in the making. Asking rent or sale price that is unaffordable for the average person!
Well, duh.
This is the truly evil plan of the 1%: make all housing unaffordable to the middle class, then criminalize homelessness.
"What will they do with the building when the hospital is no longer?"
It's not just one building but several properties that will be converted to "lux" housing. And there's no guarantee that the new urgent care facility will go past 3 months. Per the Grieve article:
"As previously reported, Mount Sinai must operate a new 24/7 urgent care center near the hospital 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. "
It's a give away. The city - that's Adams and Carolina - don't care about the health of the EV. The problem for the EV is that they care more about doing favors to the real estate industry. We should have been given a permenent ER not a 3 month sop.
This reminds one of the on-again / off-again closure of that dog cafe on Avenue A. Perhaps Mt. Sinai should have considered a GoFundMe. It is a shame what happened with this hospital that used to be a perfectly acceptable alternative. Shame on them.
Forget about the so called Mayor who is clearly an unconvicted felon. Councilperson Rivera has demonstrated time and again that she cares only about her own pocketbook.
Year down?
My Mom worked at Beth Israel literally a hundred years ago as a receptionist. She hoped to bag a doctor, but instead fell in love with my Dad, a penniless student. So sorry to see this go. I still have artifacts from when she worked there.
There's a map showing much of America is economically depressed with one of the exceptions which is NYC. Our leaders want to cater to the rich.
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