De Blasio: Interfaith closure ‘ain’t over til it’s over’
Dan Goldberg
Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio said on Sunday that the battle to save Interfaith Medical Center is far from over, despite an impending order to close the Brooklyn hospital.
"We've been to this rodeo before,” de Blasio said during a press conference to announce his child-services commissioner. “Remember with Long Island College Hospital, we were supposed to be on death's door more times than I could literally count ... and we fought back with popular efforts from the grassroots and we fought back with legal action and we're going to go right back again.”
Interfaith is losing about $3 million each month, and a bankruptcy judge is expected to issue an order on Monday announcing the closure of the facility, according to a spokesperson for the hospital.
Interfaith filed for bankruptcy more than a year ago, but a deal to salvage at least part of the hospital appeared possible, when the parties entered mediation in November.
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