Victory Memorial Hospital – the same hospital you tell the EMTs to take you any place but – is now down to only 30 beds, and its Emergency Room’s days appeared numbered.
Victory, with over $100 million in debt – much of it attributed to financial mismanagement by its previous board of directors – is currently in bankruptcy sale proceedings.

The front runner to buy the facility, with a bid of $42 million, is a long-term care facility operator.

Despite the legal efforts of Councilman Gentile, Congressman Fossella, and State Senator Golden – who claim closing Victory’s ER will creates an unacceptable strain on the area’s other three local hospitals – the state has refused to reconsider the DOH commission’s recommendation.

In all likelihood, the hospital will be totally shutdown within 60 days.