LIJ CEO Michael Dowlin" "10% of cases" (most critical) will not qualify for care

Speaking to a public meeting of Community Board 2, LIJ CEO Michael Dowling skillfully attempted to explain what the Long Island Jewish Hospital/ Lenox Hill Comprehensive Health Care Center can and can not do. While attempting to seduce the audience to believe that the high end Urgent Care Center will provide the same service that a full service ER , he does admit to four significant facts that are chilling and justify the rejection of the plan for the O'Toole building. You will find these buried about half way through the video.

1: He says that although they considered a smaller scale hospital on the O'Toole site they have rejected the idea. "No we will not build a hospital."

2: That STV corporation with the approval of the Bankruptcy Court and the Rudin Family gave free of charge both the land and the O'Toole building to LIJ. Free when it is worth millions of dollar. Free to to a private hospital corporation in perpetuity

3: That the Emergency Services Center will not be able to treat 10% of the emergency room cases that STV's ER did..

4: He admitted that the most serious life/death health crisis like a major heart attack, a brain aneurism , a 911-like disaster, a subway explosion, a child turning blue, a gun shot wound , all conditions where the amount of time to stabilize and treat the patient can mean the difference between life or death and the quality of life if one survives can not be treated at the Comprehensible Health

Listen hard to what Michael Dowling is actually is saying. Midway through the real facts come out..I do not know how you stabilize a stroke before sending it all the way across town, Imagine how long it could take to get from Westbeth to Lenox Hill Hospital or from Greenwich and Franklin to Bellevue at five O'clock in the afternoon, or fall from the roof at Hudson Housing Project ?




I was struck how simply he sidestepped the reality of what he had said. He was willing to put at the risk of dying the 10% he admits that will have to be transported to a real hospital

Remember in a health crisis emergency:

EVERY MINUTE MATTERS!

YOUR LIFE MAY DEPEND ON IT.

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