SUNY Downstate has spent the last month conducting community surveys and hosting focus groups to hear what community members think about its planned hospital closure. Critics say they don't have ...

In the meantime, SUNY Downstate will still receive operating funding to help it keep the lights on while the commission decides what comes next. The hospital runs a deficit of roughly $100 million ...

Manhattan: Re “Looking up at Downstate” (editorial, Jan. 28): Historically, biased listing criteria, including raced-based algorithms, have resulted in the exclusion of low-income and B… ...

The union United University Professions may lose 10% to 20% of its workers at SUNY Downstate. Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images. King said he wants to “minimize disruption” for staff – most of ...

SUNY Chancellor John King Jr. told the Times the state wants to transfer inpatient care at SUNY Downstate to other Brooklyn hospitals Kevin C. Downs. The plan would, in effect, create “a SUNY ...

However, the UUP said that the new plan brings with it the growing certainty of layoffs within the union, with an estimated 10-20% projected job loss among the 2,300 UUP members working at the ...

It’s been roughly six months since lawmakers and Gov. Kathy Hochul allocated $100 million in operating aid to SUNY Downstate, but the hospital has yet to see any of that money be released.

SUNY Downstate stepped up to do “everything humanly possible” to keep Brooklynites alive during that time, he said, and the community showed that same support when the hospital’s future was on the ...

EAST FLATBUSH — The State University of New York on Wednesday announced that it will launch a community-driven visioning process — in other words, an outreach program — to shape its proposed ...

SUNY Downstate said the hospital’s current building is “near the end of its life” and that replacing it would cost an estimated $3 billion over eight to 10 years.

SUNY Chancellor John King has publicly discussed the potential for housing development on the Downstate site — and to be sure, our community does need more housing.