The end of the full-service hospital in Cobble Hill
Dan Goldberg
The prospect of a deal to preserve Long Island College Hospital as a full-service hospital was already fading when executives from Brooklyn Health Partners went to City Hall last Tuesday for a meeting with top de Blasio aides.
Intergovernmental affairs director Emma Wolfe and other high-level members of the administration had grown concerned with some details that had emerged about the company's proposal to buy and redevelop the state-run, money-losing facility, and even more concerned with the prospect of further surprises, according to an administration source who was not at the meeting.
In what amounted to a last-ditch effort to save their proposal, B.H.P. officials assured the mayor’s staff they had a solid plan to build a full-service hospital on the site of the facility in Cobble Hill, the kind the community deserved.
B.H.P. officials thought the meeting went well, according to an attendee, who was not authorized to discuss the deliberations.
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