Last month, one of the campaign’s partners, the Community Coalition to Save Beth Israel, released a report summarizing a health equity impact assessment it conducted during late December and early January. Over 900 community residents from Lower Manhattan participated! No surprise, but Beth Israel Medical Center’s emergency dept. and related ICU is the major service that many people who live and work in Lower Manhattan use and rely upon. They are most worried about losing it should the hospital close. News reports indicate that the nearest ERs at Bellevue Hospital and NYU Medical Center are already overwhelmed and have long waiting times.

In early Feb., several organizations, hospital workers, and patients filed a joint lawsuit in NY State Supreme Court against Mount Sinai Health Systems (Beth Israel’s operator) and the New York State Dept. of Health, to stop Beth Israel’s closure, and a few days later the court granted a Temporary Restraining Order. You can read a news story all about it here:

Here’s our general information leaflet with action steps everyone can take.

Here’s a special online forum to learn more about the crisis situations at Beth Israel Medical Center, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, and SUNY Downstate’s University Hospital. A recording and slide decks will be available online afterwards.