UUP, the nation's largest higher education union, was joined by elected officials from across New York City as well as leaders from numerous statewide unions like the American Federation for Teachers, New York State United Teachers and Public Employees Federation in their calls to Governor Kathy Hochul and SUNY's Chancellor John B. King Jr. to stop plans to close the hospital.
Fewer than half of the hospital's available beds are in use on a regular basis, and Downstate's hospital faces an infrastructure crisis and due to its age routinely floods, has temperature control issues, and many other limitations," King Jr. said in a statement in January. "We cannot allow this status quo to continue.
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