Brookdale Hospital, Are you next to close?

By Jan 1, 2014, LICH and and Interfaith Hospital will have both closed.

Brookdale is in equally bad financial shape.

http://brookdalehospital.org/html/facilities/

However, I believe that most of its programs (including its ER) will survive until at least Jan 2015.

This thread makes that prediction public.

related reading: http://online.wsj.com/article/AP0ecf655320e54d22993dfe4ceca07ad0.html?mod=WSJ_NY_LEFTAPHeadlines

Brookdale has been in the red for years. The state tried to help it by merging it with Kingsbrook medical center which was in the black, but just barely. Kingsbrook knew that if they merged with a sinking ship that it will lead them into failure so they told the state that they agree to the merger only after brookdale pays off all its debts (knowing all too well that brookdale can't do that).

Because of this, brookdale is slowly sinking and Kingsbrook was denied some state assistance. Now I hear that Kingsbrook is about to lay off 200 of its staff. Kingsbrook is small and a 200 staff reduction is the beginning of the end. Their CEO is about to jump ship and retire as well

Brookdale is considered by many as being "too big to fail", and has managed to stay open and get support despite no longer having a CEO that bribes NYS representatives for bailout funds.

http://brooklynian.com/forum/brooklyn-and-beyond/without-bribes-the-state-money-stops

Kingsbrook has no such luxury.

Also, Brookdale is the go to emergency room for any shootings in the ENY-Brownsville area. If they close you'd have to schlep all those victims to KCH which is about 15 minutes further away.

KCH is also already quite busy. I don't think anyone with an informed viewpoint thinks that it's ER could handle the traffic it already gets, plus Interfaith's PLUS Brookdale's.

Brookdale may be doomed to an eternity of "always closing, yet never closed".

KCHC - ER, inpatient, ambulatory - is already as overwhelmed as can be, despite what the Berger Commission may think. It will only get worse once Interfaith closes. Plus, your typical HHC administrator is not that bright, so any plans they devise are sure to flop and cost five times more than originally believed.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I can't think of any hospital besides Brookdale that serves the Eastern part of Brooklyn (ENY, Brownsville, Spring Creek, even Canarsie).

Located just over the Queens border, Jamaica Hospital ends up serving part of ENY. Wyckoff Hospital also gets some of the load.

This map shows major health care facilities, including hosital run clinics that serve the area" https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl&q=east new york hospt

Lots of hospitals have closed over the last decade:

If Interfaith closes, it would become the fifth major medical facility to shutter in Brooklyn since 2003 — a list that includes Brooklyn Hospital Center Caledonian Division near Prospect Park (2003), St. Mary's Brooklyn Hospital in Bedford-Stuyvesant (2005), and Victory Memorial Hospital in Bay Ridge (2008).

That list is about to include Cobble Hill’s Long Island College Hospital — though its closure is still tied up in courts.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/brooklyn-hospital-brink-article-1.1415066

Jack Krohn is 100% correct. I recently worked a night shift in at KCH and the ER was busting at the seams. A long time nurse said to me "I have been here 20 years and its never been like this"

Jack is also correct in regards to HHC administrators.