Coalition for a New Village Hospital Submits 3,500 Petition Signatures, Comments in Opposition to Rudin Condo Plan

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT:

Yetta G. Kurland, Esq.

Kurland, Bonica & Associates, P.C.

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Coalition for a New Village Hospital Submits 3,500 Petition Signatures, Comments in Opposition to Rudin Condo Plan

West Village, NY. July 12, 2011. The Coalition for a New Village Hospital submitted 3,500 signatures to the New York City Planning Commission yesterday along with an 11 page position paper in opposition to the Rudin’s plan to develop St. Vincent’s Hospital into luxury condominiums. They petition called upon the CPC to deny the Rudin Organization’s plan alleging that it would violate law, deny lower Manhattan with desperately needed health care and overtax the current infrastructure in the area with the additional 450 luxury units the plan proposes.

The petition, viewable online at: http://www.change.org/petitions/a-hospital-not-condos-for-nyc, highlights that the Rudin application “does not include a hospital. As such, it does not comply with the requirements of the 2009 LPC ‘judicial hardship’ approval. Nor does it comply with the provisions of 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code in that this sale and the proposed Rudin plan does not continue the charitable mission of SVCMC as it is required to, namely to provide a full service hospital.”

Online signatories (the majority of signatures were gathered on paper) had the opportunity to comment as well. Many of the comments spoke to resident’s personal experiences at St. Vincent’s, and more recently in the absence of a hospital.

Fred Hersch wrote: “St. Vincent's saved my life three times. It should be there for others.”

Rosemary Rowley said: “What we need is health care, not more upscale housing to burden all ready overburdened services.”

The petition was supplemented by formal comments from the Coalition for a New Village Hospital’s attorney, Yetta Kurland.

Those comments, viewable at http://demandahospital.blogspot.com/2011/07/comments-on-coalitions-petition-to-cpc.html, focus on the various land use, zoning, public health and nonprofit law deficiencies in the Rudin’s application, and called upon the City Planning Commission to reject the application.

In a statement, Ms Kurland said, “The Rudin Condo plan does not comply with the law, and it does not comply with common sense. This location is clearly well suited for hospital use – and has been for 160 years. There can be no doubt that the interests and public health of the City of New York would be irrevocably damaged if this flawed, illegal plan is permitted to proceed.”

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Comments on the Coalition's Petition to the CPC

View below the powerful comments from our community on the coalition's petition to the City Planning Commission.


Comments on CNVH Petition to NYC CPC Opposing the Rudin Condo Plan for St. Vincent's

New York Times on Emergency Room Crisis

Roni Caryn Rabin at The New York Times wrote an important article today, on the dire loss of emergency rooms and services, primarily to poor, urban populations. The article, which draws heavily on a new study in in the Journal of the American Medical Association, goes into some detail on the situation at the former St. Vincent's. Coalition for a New Village Hospital steering committee member Dr. David L. Kaufman is quoted in the story on the impact these closures have on patient care.

Below are some key points, but the entire article is worth reading at http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/18/health/18hospital.html

Fewer Emergency Rooms Available as Need Rises

By Roni Caryn Rabin,

May 17, 2011

Hospital emergency rooms, particularly those serving the urban poor, are closing at an alarming rate even as emergency visits are rising, according to a report published on Tuesday.

Urban and suburban areas have lost a quarter of their hospital emergency departments over the last 20 years, according to the study, in The Journal of the American Medical Association. In 1990, there were 2,446 hospitals with emergency departments in nonrural areas. That number dropped to 1,779 in 2009, even as the total number of emergency room visits nationwide increased by roughly 35 percent.

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New York City lost three hospital emergency rooms in 2008, two in 2009 and two more last year, when St. Vincent’s Hospital Manhattan in Greenwich Village closed, followed by North General Hospital in Harlem. St. Vincent’s had handled more than 60,000 emergency visits a year, while North General’s E.R. had recorded 36,000 annual visits.

A 24-hour emergency care and ambulatory surgery center, operated by North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, is planned for Greenwich Village. Neighborhood advocates have expressed concern that the free-standing emergency room will not be able to deliver adequate care without the backing of a full-service acute-care hospital.

The new study warns of delays in emergency care that are already playing out in the community, said Dr. David L. Kaufman, a member of the Coalition for a New Village Hospital who worked at St. Vincent’s for more than 30 years. Patients who would have sought care at St. Vincent’s, he said, “take longer to get to nearby hospitals in New York City traffic. They’re waiting many, many hours to be seen and managed, and if they require admission, they have to wait another 12 to 24 hours because there are no beds.”

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So-called safety-net hospitals that serve disproportionate numbers of Medicaid patients and hospitals serving a large share of the poor were 40 percent more likely to close.

Remarks from Dr. David L. Kaufman at the Rally to Demand a Hospital

Remarks from Dr. David L. Kaufman at the Rally to Demand a Hospital

West Village, New York City, April 30, 2011.

Well here we are again, this time to sadly honor this one year anniversary. Luckily it’s a gorgeous day---very reassuring to know that the Bankruptcy Court and the Rudins can’t also control the weather. They can’t “fix” that…

What I want to talk about today will be lots of numbers, numbers that can rule and ruin our lives. And I want to emphasize that every statistic I give comes from the US Census, the NYS DOH or NSLIJ. These facts can tell many stories, and numbers can have great but simple power and speak the clear truth. So stay with me and I’ll try not to go too fast. Oh, and there will be a quiz on the numbers at the end.

365 days ago Greenwich Village and the entire Lower Westside was plunged into a health crisis. For 52 weeks we have had no easily accessible emergency services, trauma services, hospital beds, none of the broad range of medical, surgical, psychiatric, and ambulatory services that St. Vincent’s provided to all in need. Over the last 12 months, the 61,394 people previously cared for in the St. Vincent’s Emergency Room have had to travel through traffic one to five miles in trips lasting twenty to sixty minutes to get emergency services where they have been forced to wait on average over five hours before being seen and then, if admitted, often wait another 12-24 hours for a bed to become available. How many people never made it to an ER? How many suffered in pain while waiting for care? How many had more damage to their hearts or brains because of delays in transport, triage, and management? How many died?

Last year, 70% of the patients admitted to St. Vincent’s Hospital came from the Emergency Department. Let me crystal clear here: that means in 2009, an incredible 13,572 people were so sick, so acutely ill that they required IMMEDIATE admission for treatment of their heart attacks, strokes, pneumonias, perforated organs, injuries, etc. What has happened to those 13,572 patients over the last 52 weeks? Does anyone really know?

In 2009, St. Vincent’s hospital admitted a total of 19,388 patients. In 2009, St. Vincent’s Hospital had an average daily census of 340 patients. That means 340 people from our community were sick enough to be hospitalized every single day of the year. Where have all those patients gone? How far have they had to travel, how badly has their care been delayed and disrupted?

Of course, the NYS Dept Of Health, the NSLIJ hospital system, the Rudin Organization, our elected politicians—Cuomo, Bloomberg, Duane, Gottfried, Quinn and the rest—our elected leaders supposedly responsible for our community’s health and welfare---of course THEY don’t have any of those answers. Suddenly their statistics machine is broken, their multimillion dollar PR operations are eerily silent. No answers. Nothing. What has happened to the concept of holding officials, be they appointed, elected, corporate or non-profit, responsible and accountable?

Instead of answers, our community has been supremely insulted. These people are offering us an urgent care center, a doc in the box on steroids, a turbocharged clinic. They further insult us by calling it an Emergency Room. And then, talking to us like we are ill mannered children, they insist we are lucky to even get this, that it’s better than nothing. I will not, again, go through all the reasons they are wrong, all the ways they are deceiving us and all the life threatening risks of their generous offer. Read the flyers, read Westview, and then think about this: can their Comprehensive Care Center, their free standing emergency room treat 61,394 people a year, can it house 19,388 patients sick enough to require inpatient care, can it deliver the life saving, critical care that 13,572 poor souls required in the emergency room in 2009. These are not rhetorical questions, these are not melodramatic questions-no, no, these are life and death questions and the lack of answers, the utter disregard of these facts puts my life and yours in danger every day.

OK, time to move on to a different set of numbers. Are you ready? OK, here we go. According to the data collected by NSLIJ, the Lower Westside and the so called primary service area of St. Vincent’s hospital has a population of 385, 000 and the hospital had about 380 operational beds. 385,000—I want you to remember that number and also keep in mind that it does not even include the estimated 500,000 additional commuters and tourists that come to the Lower Westside every day. 385,000.

Now, we going to take five mile trip to the Upper East Side and East Harlem, an area geographically defined by the Harlem River to the North, the East River, south to 59^th street and west to 5^th Ave. The population of those two communities totals 325,286 people, 60,000 people less than ours. What do all those people do for healthcare—what are the hospital and Emergency Room resources in their community? Hold onto your hats and try not to faint as I read you these statistics:

· NY Presbyterian Cornell Weill Hospital –867 beds and full service emergency room

· Mt. Sinai Hospital—1171 beds and a full service emergency room

· Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center—437 beds and a full service emergency room

· Metropolitan Hospital—341 beds and –you guessed it—a full service emergency room

· Hospital for Special Surgery –172 beds and limited emergency services

· And finally, last but certainly not least, we have Lenox Hill Hospital, NSLIJ’s latest acquisition with 652 beds and another full service emergency room

Can anyone guess how many beds that adds up to? Are you ready? 3,940. Yup, that’s 3,940 beds for 325,286 people or one bed per 82 persons. Oh, and I almost forgot, FIVE full service emergency rooms with all the bells and whistles, all the medical and surgical backup required to do the job right.

What do we have? NOTHING. We have zero beds for 385,000 people or close to a million if you include the commuters and tourists. I want to make sure you all got that: it’s zero bed per 385,000 as compared to one bed per 82. In some circles, that would be called criminal policy and planning. I suspect most third world countries have better bed ratios than zero per 385,000.

So what can be done? We are up against a government mindset that insists New York State has too many hospital beds, that the only way to solve our financial healthcare problems is to close beds and hospitals. Let’s just assume that the DOH and the so called healthcare experts are correct. How do they implement this decision, how do they get rid of beds? It’s a fair question and one would think that experts like these would approach the challenge rationally and carefully. But, the utterly astonishing fact is, they do not. They give no thought to the distribution of beds—all they care about is shutting them down. Community needs, bed per person ratios, socio-economic issues are all irrelevant. How else explain the behavior of a our city and state officials, of that guardian of your health and mine, the DOH, -- how else explain their decision to leave all 385,000 of us with NO hospital, NO Emergency Room, No critical services, while five miles north of here there are 4000 beds for 60,000 less people? Incredible and shameful.

So here is my proposal. Let’s get rational, let’s act responsibly, let’s plan intelligently, and let’s all work together—our community, the Rudins, NSLIJ, our elected and appointed officials—let’s solve this absurd situation so that everyone wins. NSLIJ has taken over Lenox Hill Hospital in a community that, as I have just described, is practically drowning in beds. The DOH would be absolutely correct in stating that the Upper East Side is way overbedded, that the situation is not financially sensible or sustainable. And Lenox Hill, even with the marketing might and deep pockets of NSLIJ, will be hard pressed to compete with the likes of Sinai, Sloan, Hospital for Special Surgery, and NY Hospital. But, hey look around you—behind me is a huge empty hospital campus, across the street is another 160,000 sq ft of empty space, and all around me are 385,000 patients—customers—with no hospital, no services, and we are desperate for help.

So-I say to NSLIJ, come on down.

Move the entire Lenox Hill Hospital downtown. Bring the doctors, bring the nurses, the support staff, the beds, the fancy equipment, bring it all, and we will fill your beds. We’ll even be getting a lot of our great St. Vincent’s docs back since Lenox Hill recruited so many of them. And in exchange, let the Rudins move uptown to build their condos. Talk about prime real estate---we’re talking 76^th and Park Ave, doesn’t get much better than that. And if NSLIJ doesn’t need the entire St. Vincent’s campus, well, they can throw the Rudins a building or two to develop down here. Just think about it---at a minimum it’s bed neutral but they could probably do it with 400 beds, so we actually close another 250 beds—hooray. I’m not a banker or a mogul, but I suspect the dollars work to everyone’s benefit. And nobody loses their job, businesses would reopen in this ghost town, and we, the people, get our healthcare crisis resolved with the opening of new world class, full service hospital and emergency room. Think of the good will generated, think of the fund raising opportunities, imagine the restoration of healthcare for 385,000 people. Everybody wins, nobody loses.

Let’s all work together to create the new World Trade Center Memorial Hospital.

The Westside Healthcare Coalition is a Lie

Lower West Side residents have been receiving some interesting astroturf in their mailboxes lately. It's from a group called The "Westside Healthcare Coalition". Trouble is, they don't exist. They're just a front for the real estate developers that want to build luxury condos where we need a hospital.

Don't fall for it.

West Side Healthcare Coalition is a Lie

Statement on Today's Court Decision

Statement from the
Coalition for a New Village Hospital's attorney Yetta Kurland

We were disappointed, but not surprised by today's Court decision. While we disagree with the Court's determination, this is just the first of a number of hurdles that the Rudins will have to overcome to purchase and develop the St. Vincent's campus.The Coalition for a New Village Hospital stays principled in our stand and unwavering in our position that this community requires nothing less than a full service hospital. We will continue to unite the community toward that objective. Our April 30th rally will be a testament to the community's desire for a hospital. At the same time, we are prepared to work wiith Rudin Management and North Shore-LIJ to achieve that goal.

WARNING! The North Shore-LIJ “Emergency Department” Plan May Be Hazardous To Your Health

For: The Coalition For A New Village Hospital

Media Contact: Steven Greene

For Immediate Release

WARNING! The North Shore-LIJ “Emergency Department” Plan May Be Hazardous To Your Health

10 Ways North Shore-LIJ Gets It Wrong

1. The North Shore-LIJ “Emergency Department”may be dangerous to your health. The trip you take to an urgent care center can cost you vital minutes that make the difference between life and death. The chances of surviving a cardiac arrest declines by approximately 10% for each minute without defibrillation. At the new North Shore-LIJ urgent care center, it may be hours before examinations, blood tests and electrocardiograms reveal an acute heart attack. Whether the ambulance trip that follows is to Beth Israel Hospital or more than 4 miles to Lenox Hill, it would be too late for the emergency intervention available at a hospital. At the end of the day, their proposed “Emergency Department” is a lot like a “doc-in-the-box” urgent care center.

2. Free Standing “Emergency Departments” like the one planned by North Shore-LIJ can actually drive up medical costs. While they claim freestanding emergency rooms are less expensive to operate, there is growing evidence that they actually increase costs as the quality of healthcare declines. In states like Washington the legislature is considering putting a moratorium on using these facilities after seeing costs skyrocket.

3. You can’t take an ambulance there. How can it be a true Emergency Room if it doesn’t have ambulance services? Without large changes in laws and regulations, these types of facilities will not have ambulance service to bring in a patient. The reason: The managers of the 911 emergency system does not believe these independent ambulances are equipped to treat emergencies. To make the changes North Shore-LIJ is requesting will mean a ”freelance” ambulance system that operates separate and apart from the life-saving 911 system.

4. Emergency medical technicians will be forced to make decisions about what type of treatment you will receive before you see a doctor. If a patient calls 911, medics are going to have to make critical life decisions without the guidance of a medical doctor. If these medics are rushing patients to an “emergency room” unprepared for life-threatening emergencies, patients’ lives will be at risk.

5. It is an unregulated facility where patients without coverage can be turned away. Unlike hospital emergency departments that are obliged to accept all patients regardless of their ability to pay, private centers like the one planned by North Shore-LIJ, are legally allowed to turn away patients who have trouble paying for treatment. What’s more, they are not even required to hire union employees.

6. It will be in their interests to transfer you miles away to Lenox Hill. An emergency room helps cover its costs by admitting patients to the hospital. ERs are the major source of new admissions. It is widely understood that a “stand alone ER” like this one acts as a “feeder” to get patients. That would mean that assuming you did actually need care you wouldn’t receive it in your neighbourhood, but would be transferred by ambulance to North Shore-LIJ’s one and only NYC medical center, Lenox Hill Hospital, which is crosstown, and 4.09 miles away.

7. The emergency care they can’t provide is the care that matters most. NSLIJ claim this new “Emergency Department” will provide 95% of the care available at St. Vincent’s former ER. Importantly, that figure does not include the most important reasons patients rush to an emergency room -- acute stroke, heart attack, trauma, septic shock, respiratory failure, and other emergency events including those suffered by first responders from the World Trade Center.

8. This new Emergency Department” will treat 40% fewer patients annually in a community that’s doubled in size. Despite a doubling in the size of the community, the new center will treat only 35,000 patients per year versus 60,000 treated annually at the former St. Vincent’s.

9. Contrary to claims, St. Vincent’s was used by the majority of the community until the day it closed. In fact, St. Vincent's treated 55% of the local community in 2009, its last full year of operation, according to New York State data. This was true even while rumors were growing that the hospital would soon close.

10. A new hospital can be built at a fraction of the cost While NSLIJ claims building a new hospital could cost $2 million/bed, a global firm of engineers has estimated the cost of reinstating a hospital in the current Colman building at a fraction of the cost, and close to the cost as the\is proposed freestanding urgent care center.

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Winners and Losers

Winners and Losers in the Battle for Healthcare on the Lower West Side

Doctors Forced to Leave St. Vincent's Hospital

DNAInfo's Ben Fractenberg reports:

Doctors Forced to Leave St. Vincent's Hospital Site

March 28, 2011

WEST VILLAGE — The fate of an urgent care center set to take over the former St. Vincent's Hospital site is still in flux, but the shuttered hospital has already taken steps to force out dozens of doctors who still retain offices at the former medical facility.

Doctors with private practices in the O'Toole Building at Seventh Avenue and West 12th Street were stunned to receive letters from St. Vincent's warning them that their leases were suspended and that they would have to vacate the premises by the end of May, DNAinfo has learned.

The letters were dated March 10, the same day the hospital announced it was selling to North Shore-LIJ.

"Please note that we will be required to take action in the Bankruptcy Court to assure that you timely vacate the Unit absent your cooperation, so please provide us with advance notice of your expected departure date," the letter warns.

Doctors blasted the sudden eviction. ...

Full Story

Update from Attorney Yetta Kurland: Moving Forward

Dear Friends,

News came out earlier this month that a deal had been made, between the Rudin development organization and the remnants of St. Vincent’s Medical Center, for Rudin to purchase the old St. Vincent’s hospital for use as a condominium site, with a section to be set aside for an urgent care center.

The Coalition for a New Village Hospital stays principled in our fight for a hospital and unwavering in our position that the community needs nothing less than a full service level 1 trauma care hospital. But we see this proposal as an opportunity in that fight, and here’s why.

As New Yorkers we know that, where there’s a will, there’s a way. The defeat of the Westside Stadium, the success of Grand Central Station, and Central Park are monuments to our will as New Yorkers. There are others.

Yesterday evening, The Wall Street Journal reported that a potential buyer is seeking to block the Rudin sale in bankruptcy so it can build a full service hospital at the St. Vincent’s site.

Here on the Lower West Side, we have known since the wrongful closure of St. Vincent’s Hospital that there is a strong will among the residents of our community to have a new hospital to replace the one that was taken away from us. All of these recent developments are an acknowledgment of that will. There will be a medical facility at Seventh Avenue and 12th Street. This is the start of what can be a victory for all of us in our fight.

There remains however the critical question of what kind of a medical facility it will be.

We have been working on the political front to make clear to the Rudins, and to our elected officials, that if the Rudins and LIJ can get the building for free, and raise an additional $125 million, as they acknowledge, to build a brand new urgent care center, they can, for the same or similar cost, renovate the Coleman building to create a hospital.

We have been fighting on the legal front to force St. Vincent’s to be more transparent in their dealings, including their financials, for the New York State Department of Health to honor its responsibility to provide adequate healthcare for our community, for the Bankruptcy Court to recognize our right as members of the public for health care, and for our public officials to hold those responsible for this health crisis accountable and restore the vital resources our community needs.

To that end, I want to invite you to come on April 1st at 2pm in U.S. Southern District Court which is located at 500 Pearl Street, Room 14B (MAP) to watch oral arguments in our fight to allow the Coalition access to public records regarding the closure of St. Vincent’s hospital.

Also on April 7th at 11:00am the bankruptcy court at 1 Bowling Green, Room 701 (MAP) will hold a hearing on the request to approve the sale of the property to the Rudins. It is the Coalition’s position that such a sale would be a violation of New York State Non-Profit Corporation laws and U.S. Internal Revenue Code, both of which the bankruptcy court must recognize. In specific, a public asset, including the not for profit St. Vincent’s, cannot transfer assets to a private entity, like the Rudins, and a transfer like that proposed must continue the charitable mission of St. Vincent’s Hospital, which clearly luxury condominium units do not. You can read the letter we sent to the bankruptcy court regarding this here.

It has been and it remains the will of our people that this facility be a hospital, a real hospital -- with an emergency room, fully equipped to handle the cases that will come through its doors, with the inpatient rooms that will continue the care once the crisis has been met, and with the special services and departments that a community such as ours would require.

Built into the Rudin/St.Vincent’s/Long Island Jewish deal is the wherewithal to bring into being a New Village Hospital. If an “urgent care center” can be built, then a hospital can be built on the old site. Given the amount of money available from Federal and State funds to operate a hospital, over and above what would be available to operate an “urgent care center,” the economics of going the hospital route make more sense. Again, as always, it is a question of the will to do it.

It is now up to us as a community to transfer our will into a reality by making clear, to all the actors in this process, that we will not go away until we get what we need and deserve, a hospital.

To that end, please mark your calendars. April 30th. That’s the date when we will commemorate the one year anniversary of the wrongful closing of St. Vincent’s and redouble our efforts and resolve to demand a hospital for our community. Please download this flyer to put in your building, community center or school to let folks know. There will be a planning meeting for the rally on Wednesday March 30th at 6pm at the Church of the Village located on the corner of 7th Avenue and 13th Street (7th Ave entrance - MAP) and a fundraiser on Monday March 28th (see below or buy tickets here) at Fiddlesticks on Greenwich between 7th Avenue and 6th Avenue (MAP).

Be there. Look for me. I’ll be looking for you.

In solidarity and towards a new village hospital,

Yetta Kurland


Coalition for a New Village Hospital: One Year Rally Poster


3-22 letter in re St. Vincent's

Rally April 30

Rally to Demand a Hospital

April 30th
2:00 PM
at the old St. Vincent's site at
7th Avenue and West 12th Street

One year after the illegal closing of St. Vincent's Hopsital and one month after the real estate moguls announced their plan, join the Coalition for a New Village Hospital for a mass rally.

Let the real estate interests and our elected officials know that we will not accept anything short of a full-service, acute care hospital with level one emergency facilities.

Rally TODAY: 100 Days Without a Hospital

Come one, come all!

Join the Coalition for a New Village Hospital tomorrow for

100 Days Without a Hospital Rally,
TODAY, Sunday October 17th
2 PM
West 12th St. and 7th Avenue

If there remained any doubt as to the need for a New Village Hospital, Ruth Ford and Adrienne Day's must read article in City Lights dispelled it.

Can't make it today? Here's what you can do:

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RALLY: 100 DAYS WITHOUT A HOSPITAL

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Please print out the above flyer and let your neighbors know about this important rally. You can download an 11" X 17" poster here.

Coalition Files Suit to Demand Release of Documents

The Coalition for a New Village Hospital filed suit in New York County Supreme Court today to demand release of documents kept secret by the New York State Dept. of Health. The suit, filed by attorneys Yetta Kurland and Thomas Shanahan on behalf of the Coalition, seeks to compel the Dept. of Health to release the hospital closure plans, transfer plans and all related documents.

While the documents are public records, the Dept. has steadfastly refused to release them despite a Freedom of Information Law request and numerous other inquiries. Today's Article 78 proceeding asks the court to order their release. Included in these documents will be details of any plans to transfer the St. Vincent's site to other hospital providers - and importantly why these attempts were quashed by Health Commissioner Richard Daines.

Here's civil rights attorney Yetta Kurland discussing the suit this morning.

Included in the complaint are IRS documents showing alleged mismanagement, high executive salaries and rampant waste by St. Vincent's management prior to the closure. Executive salaries remained sky-high as doctors, nurses and patients were asked to sacrifice.

Here are the documents filed today:

Coalition for a New Village Hospital: Article 78 Action Part 1

Coalition for a New Village Hospital: Article 78 Action Part 2

The coalition also held a press conference in conjunction with today's filing, which was reported on by The Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal, New York 1 (with Video), and others. In addition to Kurland and Shanahan, Coalition members Eileen Dunn RN, District Leaders Paul Newell and Jean Grillo, activist Miguel Acevedo and Noah Pfefferblit of Community Board 1 spoke in favor of the law suit.

COALITION FOR A NEW VILLAGE HOSPITAL Petition

Sign this petition to our elected officials Demand A Hospital for the Lower West Side!!!

COALITION FOR A NEW VILLAGE HOSPITAL Petition