SUNY Downstate Hospital, threatened in budget talks, will remain open
New York State will not shutter a state-run central Brooklyn teaching hospital that had landed on the chopping block under a state budget draft, Gov. Hochul’s office said Friday. “It is not closing its doors in the near-term,” Kathryn Garcia, New York’s director of state operations, told reporters in Manhattan. The preservation of the medical center, University Hospital at Downstate, came ...