State university trustees will vote this week on whether to close Long Island College Hospital despite protests from doctors and nurses that northern Brooklyn would lose an essential source of emergency care, officials of the Brooklyn hospital said.
Dr. John Williams, president of SUNY Downstate Medical Center, which runs the Brooklyn hospital, said on Tuesday that he would formally recommend closing the hospital at a SUNY meeting in Manhattan on Thursday, followed by a public hearing that same day.
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