The State University of New York has signed a contract with Fortis Property Group – which is headed by Satmar Philanthropist Lazer Kastenbaum – for the financially strapped Long Island College Hospital.
SUNY announced the signing on Tuesday. The SUNY Board of Trustees had voted late last month to approve the agreement, which will include an emergency room and an ambulatory surgery center but not a full-service hospital.
Fortis is partnering with New York University’s Langone Medical Center, which is scheduled to take over operations at the facility from SUNY on Sept. 1.
The contract now has to be approved by the New York State attorney general and the state comptroller.
State officials said LICH had been losing $13 million a month.
Fortis has said it will be meeting with community leaders in coming weeks to discuss its plans.
(AP)
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FYI: The picture you posted is actually not Lazer but his son, Joel. Nevertheless, I wish them lots of Siyata Deshmaya & Bracha ViHatzlacha on this new venture.
He is a great person he is doing allot of good things to benefit the local community and we all wish him hatzlocho.