One evening in mid-July, Cherlece Acosta received a text message from the nurse practitioner at her daughter’s former middle school, MS 51 in Park Slope. Although her daughter had graduated from the ...

EAST FLATBUSH, Brooklyn (PIX11) — Calls to save SUNY Downstate Medical Center were renewed Thursday. The hospital is facing a looming threat of closure, citing financial struggles and a building in ...

PROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDENS — Located in Central Brooklyn, SUNY Downstate is New York City’s only public academic medical center. For 160 years, Downstate has trained a diverse, world-class health care ...

Lawmakers are trying to pump the brakes on a state plan to close SUNY Downstate Medical Center as final budget negotiations ensue. Members of the state Senate and Assembly are pressing Gov. Kathy ...

After Gov. Hochul’s budget blueprint included a proposal to close a central Brooklyn hospital, state lawmakers have released plans to keep the medical center open. Budgetary proposals released by the ...

The turmoil surrounding efforts by the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center to close Long Island College Hospital (LICH) has led to speculation in southwest Brooklyn that SUNY will ...

Healthcare workers and community residents are protesting a “transformative plan” that could result in the closure of State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center in the East Flatbush ...

Brooklyn residents are frantic over the potential loss of medical-treatment options — and hundreds of local jobs — as the state moves forward with its apparent plan to close major safety-net hospital ...

An advisory board tasked with designing the future of SUNY Downstate’s University Hospital recommended that the cash-strapped medical center cut nearly half of its beds and build an ambulatory surgery ...