Long Island College Hospital health care workers, community leaders and neighbors rallied Wednesday to have emergency ambulance services reinstated at the Cobble Hill medical facility.
Protesters gathered in front of the once fully functioning emergency care unit at the hospital. Full-time ambulance services stopped in late May amid ongoing negotiations between State University of New York, NYU Langone Medical Center, and Fortis Property Group about the future of the hospital.
Emergency ambulance services were supposed to resume around Sept. 1, but since that initial agreement, NYU Langone Medical Center has withdrawn its offer to take over the emergency services and ambulatory care.
The walk-in emergency unit is still running at LICH until a new deal is struck, but there is no date on when ambulance services would resume if at all.
News 12 Brooklyn has reached out to SUNY Downstate for a comment and is waiting to hear back.