The Medical Staff of Long Island College Hospital
decided three years ago to do our best to save LICH when we realized it was being gradually destroyed by Continuum Health Partners, the Manhattan-based management organization contracted with in 1998.

With our own personal funds, we hired a legal team and consultants to help us free LICH from this destructive relationship. We have faced numerous roadblocks, given CHP’s financial resources and powerful connections.

The latest announcement by CHP, however, that they will end 150 years of delivering Brooklyn’s babies by closing LICH’s Ob-Gyn and Pediatrics services and selling off core buildings, has resonated deeply within the downtown Brooklyn community, upsetting many people and galvanizing them to action.  With your support, we look forward to great success.

The downtown Brooklyn community needs LICH and it needs LICH to provide the full range of services.  To be the hospital you need, it needs to be here under local Brooklyn control.  While things are hardly perfect at LICH, the problems that exist could be readily corrected by effective, modern management once we, in Brooklyn, are again masters of the destiny of LICH.  Sadly, CHP’s ongoing mismanagement has led us to the state in which we now find our community hospital. 

Please join us to save LICH from the draconian cuts proposed by CHP and to restore it to what it was for many, many years - a premier community hospital serving the local community. Let’s join in building LICH’s future together.