A mere 24 hours before Victory Memorial hospital was slated to lose its license, per a 2006 NYSDOH report ordering its closure, it appears a backroom deal with SUNY Downstate Medical Center has been reached that will save the bankrupt Bay Ridge hospital.
Under the deal, Victory’s facility (currently renamed SUNY Downstate at Bay Ridge) will continue to run its ambulatory surgery unit – which conducts surgeries that do not require overnight stays – for another two weeks until Downstate receives a state certification, according to the Brooklyn Paper.

SUNY Downstate Bay Ridge will rent the space from the Abe Leser Group, a Borough Park real-estate firm, which bought the beleaguered hospital for $44.9 million in May.

News of the SUNY Downstate takeover was welcome by hospital employees, and local bay Ridge residents who – after an unsuccessful lawsuit filed by local politicians this year failed to halt its closure – were concerned the area would be undeserved without Victory’s emergency and ambulatory services.