Rally to save Mount Sinai Beth Israel hospital from NYC closure [Video]

NEW YORK CITY – Mount Sinai Beth Israel, one of the last remaining hospitals that serves Lower Manhattan, is on track to shut its doors this summer in NYC.

Demonstrators and elected officials have been rallying ever since, including over the weekend, to save the hospital before its scheduled shutdown in July.

Mount Sinai made the decision to close the campus in the fall, and ever since, there’s been ongoing pushback.

Residents are upset there wasn’t more transparency involved in the process, and with the hospital slated to close in less than 16 weeks, neighbors and community advocates are pushing the Department of Health to come up with some sort of viable alternative.

“But you can’t say that you are in the business of saving lives, but that cost is too high.” St. Sen. Kristen Gonzalez

Community advocates, local elected officials and neighbors are calling on state intervention to keep the facility operating.