According to court papers, the hospital, in Bedford-Stuyvesant, which serves an African-American and Caribbean section of central Brooklyn, said the State Department of Health had given it no choice, rejecting a restructuring plan and refusing any financial help until the shutdown begins. A hearing on the closing motion is to be held Aug. 15 in United States Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of New York, but approval is expected.
The schedule for closing calls for inpatient admissions to end that day, and for ambulances to be diverted from its emergency room, which would close Sept. 14. Inpatient services would end on Sept. 15, outpatient programs on Oct. 15 and H.I.V. and rehabilitation programs on Nov. 14.
The hospital has been in and out of financial trouble for decades, with its survival dependent on infusions of state aid. It filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in December, after the Cuomo administration indicated an unwillingness to continue bailing out failing hospitals, and the governor's Medicaid redesign team urged that Interfaith merge with two other struggling hospitals, Wyckoff Heights Medical Center and Brooklyn Hospital. Merger discussions soon broke down, however.
The threatened closing of another Brooklyn hospital, Long Island College Hospital in Cobble Hill, has become an issue in the mayoral campaign.
"Losing Interfaith is not an option," Bill de Blasio, the public advocate and a candidate for mayor, said in a statement on Wednesday. "No one of conscience can stand idly by while more than 175,000 Brooklynites are forced farther from their nearest emergency room, or lose critical H.I.V.-AIDS and mental health services. We're prepared to take whatever steps are required — from direct action to appealing to the courts — to keep the doors of community hospitals open."
In its court papers, the hospital said that on July 9 it presented the Department of Health with a viable business restructuring plan that would not require state financing after the hospital emerged from bankruptcy proceedings. But the state rejected that plan, and refused to let the hospital use cash collateral after July 29 unless it began an orderly shutdown, the court papers said.
Bill Schwarz, a Department of Health spokesman, said the plan for closing, received July 25, was now in the final stages of review.
"To ensure the health and safety needs of the residents of the community are met, D.O.H. will continue to work closely with Interfaith Medical Center to effectuate an orderly process," he wrote in an e-mail statement.
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