Victory ER closed: converted to urgent treat and release center
Effective Monday morning: “calling 911 or BRAVO… will result in transport to another area hospital’s emergency room,” reports the Brooklyn Eagle.
According to Bill Guarnello, Victory’s Emergency Room will be converted into an acute urgent walk-in care center servicing Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and Bensonhurst.
The urgent ‘treat and release’ center will have hours of 7am – 11pm, with the possibility to operate 24 hours sometime in the future.
Victory, slated for closure for over a year by the NYSDOH’s Berger Commission, was at the center of a legal battle by local politicians arguing an unacceptable stress on other hospitals’ emergency room services should Victory’s ER close its doors.
The hospital has been operating nearly tens of millions in debt, the result of fiscal impropriety by the previous board of directors following what many say was millions in 9/11 related money squandered.
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