SUNY tried to shutter SUNY Downstate University Hospital but a Brooklyn coalition of community and faith leaders, patients, medical students and union leaders rose up and shut that plan down.
That was last year.
This year, the community coalition faces a new challenge: convincing Gov. Kathy Hochul and the Downstate Community Advisory Board (DCAB) to upgrade and reimagine Downstate hospital as a full-service, inpatient hospital that provides life-saving health care to hundreds of thousands of people across Brooklyn.
- The fourth DCAB public hearing on a long-term plan for Downstate hospital is set for 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.on Monday, April 28
at Medgar Evers College, Founders Auditorium, 1650 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn. - Please attend this meeting and tell DCAB members why Downstate is so important to Brooklyn.
Click HERE to sign up to speak at the public hearing. - The DCAB also has a website with information about its public hearings, at https://downstateadvisoryboard.org/public-hearings/.
Please send an e-letter to Gov. Hochul urging her to support and fully fund a reimagined Downstate University Hospital.
Click HERE To send the e-letter now!
UUP supports a plan to revitalize and reinvigorate Downstate hospital issued by Brooklyn for Downstate, a Brooklyn coalition of community, health care, unions and business organizations and leaders that demand a reimagined Downstate hospital. UUP’s Executive Board voted in February to formally endorse BFD’s plan for Downstate.
Click HERE to view architectural renderings of BFD’s vision of a reimagined, revitalized Downstate University Hospital.
Click HERE to view BFD’s recommendations for a vital, long-range plan for Downstate University Hospital.
CODE RED: Brooklyn Needs Downstate
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