With a great number of the units in Grove Pointe rented to St. Vincent's for its residents/doctors -- what impact could its possible closing have?

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St. Vincent's May Shutter Greenwich Village Hospital
January 26, 2010

St. Vincent's Hospital may shut down most of its operations under a new plan.

DNAinfo Producer/Reporter

MANHATTAN ? Dozens of doctors and nurses joined local politicians Tuesday to protest a potential takeover of St. Vincent?s Hospital, which would leave the lower west side of Manhattan without any emergency medical facilities.

Rival health care group Continuum Health Partners ? which operates Beth Israel, St. Luke's and Roosevelt hospitals in Manhattan ? has submitted a plan to take control of the financially struggling, 727-bed Greenwich Village hospital.
But City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and Congressman Jerrold Nadler issued dire warnings about the takeover.

?If the state allows this health group to move forward with its plans to remove emergency care, it would paralyze medical assistance on the west side of Manhattan,? Quinn said, speaking outside of the hospital.

?Every minute an ambulance has to travel longer to reach a hospital is another minute with a life in jeopardy.?
Under the plan, the hospital would be converted to a community health center. Patients currently being treated at the hospital would be rerouted within 60-90 days of the takeover and the regional emergency care and trauma functions of the hospital would be severely cut back.
St. Vincent's is also one of the state's designated AIDS centers, and has a psychiatric unit with 79 licensed beds.
The takeover plan has outraged several area residents.
?I?m happy Marc Jacobs can afford to live here, but I?d rather have St. Vincent?s,? said Carole Lewis, who has lived in the West Village for 46 years.

?We don?t need more yuppie glass buildings, we need more services like they have at St. Vincent?s,? another resident, Joan Giles added.

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer issued a statement on Tuesday urging for transparency in the process and warning against the closure of the hospital.
"Saint Vincent Hospital?s mission is important to not just Greenwich Village, but the entire City," he said. "For over 160 years Saint Vincent?s has provided free health care for many of our most vulnerable citizens."


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