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New York Is Planning to Shutter a Major Brooklyn Teaching Hospital [1]

['Joseph Goldstein']

Date: 2024-01-20

The state is planning to drastically shrink or even close University Hospital at Downstate in Brooklyn, the only state-run medical hospital in New York City.

A number of concerns — too few patients, annual operating deficits of about $100 million and a deteriorating hospital building — have led to the proposal, which hospital administrators shared with doctors this week.

It is unclear how the plan will affect access to medical care for residents of central Brooklyn and beyond. The hospital, in East Flatbush, is directly across the street from another public hospital, the city-run Kings County Hospital, so the change would not mean a swath of the city suddenly lost access to a nearby hospital.

But Downstate has some specialized care that Kings County doesn’t provide. It has the only kidney transplant program in the borough, for example, and hospital administrators expressed uncertainty about the program’s future.

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/20/nyregion/suny-downstate-hospital-closure-brooklyn.html

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