PUBLIC HEARING
NYS Public Health and Health Planning Council
Committee on Establishment and Project Review
Thursday, September 22, 2011, 10 AM
90 Church Street 4th Floor Rooms A/B
Prior registration (see below) and photo ID required
Re: Certificate of Need (CON) Project # 111531
This final public hearing by New York State Department of Health is held specifically to receive comments from the community about the NorthShoreLIJ/LenoxHill proposal (CON) to substitute a "free-standing emergency room" as the replacement for St. Vincents Medical and Trauma I Center at the site of the former O'Toole Clinic Building on the westside of 7th Ave and 12th. Street.**
IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT OUR COMMUNITY'S VOICE BE HEARD HERE!
To register, call Colleen Frost at (518) 402-0964 or e-mail PHHPC@health.state.ny.us and give reference CON Project # 111531
If you intend to speak, bring a copy of your statement to leave at the hearing.
Also, it would be helpful to let us know if you plan to come and have registered others, too.
Also, it would be helpful to let us know if you plan to come and have registered others, too.
COME EARLY - THIS PROJECT IS CLOSE TO TOP OF AGENDA
Speak or submit statements about why a drive by Emergency Room Without a Hospital leaves the West Side of Manhattan without a hospital from Battery Park to Columbus Circle putting every resident, employee and visitor at risk in the case of a medical emergency. )
**The Rudin group plans to demolish the former St. Vincent's east side campus on 7th Avenue and 12th Street to build 450 luxury condos (without affordable housing mix!).
Questions: Please call 212-924-5258 or 917-301-1158
Remember: Your attendance bears witness
to our need for a hospital/trauma One center and you are representing
those many who cannot be present at the meeting.
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