Members of the mental health staff at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center say they were blindsided when they were told the psychiatric unit would close at the end of the month, News 12 reports. Workers say they received a letter last week that told them the 25-bed, in-patient psychiatric unit at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center would permanently close.
“The reason they’re giving us is there’s no doctor, which is not reasonable enough. It’s not justifiable,” says Salina Flores, a registered nurse. “They can’t find any doctors? What efforts have they done?”
The CEO of One Brooklyn Health, which oversees Kingsbrook, told News 12 a statement that, in addition to the clinical staffing challenges, utilization of the Kingsbrook Psychiatric inpatient beds has markedly declined. Read more.
