The board of the State University of New York (SUNY) on Friday voted unanimously to move forward with closing of Long Island College Hospital, Dow Jones DBR Small Cap reported today. John Williams, president of SUNY Downstate Medical Center, which runs LICH, recommended to the board on Thursday that the hospital be closed, saying that it has a projected deficit of $41 million this fiscal year.
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