After this year's bankruptcy of two Queens Private Hospitals, the former structures were auctioned off to the highest bidder. Sadly, it is clear that neither site will become a hospital again...
Joshua Guttman is heading an investment group that successfully bid for St. John's Hospital in Elmhurst and Mary Immaculate Hospital in Jamaica. The properties, owned by bankrupt Caritas Health Care, went on auction Friday.
They are eying Mary Immaculate for use as either an educational or religious facility, according to a statement by CB Richard Ellis, the firm that handled the auction. Other options include using the site as offices for a nonprofit or government organization.
The 2-acre St. John's site on Queens Blvd. could be turned into offices, the statement said.Community leaders and elected officials had lobbied to keep the sites open as hospitals.
...and the elected officials of Queens are eerily silent. Queens BP, Helen Marshall, arguably the City's most ineffective elected official, failed to find a buyer that would invest to bring back healthcare services to residents of Queens who are faced with a massive shortage of medical treatment facilities...
"I am going to try to convince them," she said. "Queens has a population of 2.3 million and 1.6 beds per 1,000 people, while Manhattan has population of 1.5 million and 6.8 beds per 1,000."
Queens Borough President Helen Marshall, who is slated to meet with the developers, said Queens is in desperate need of health care facilities.
"I am going to try to convince them," she said. "Queens has a population of 2.3 million and 1.6 beds per 1,000 people, while Manhattan has population of 1.5 million and 6.8 beds per 1,000."
...considering that the City's hospital system is subsidized by taxpayers to the tune of more than $1 billion annually, it is a true failure of the political process and our elected officials to have allowed a shortage of about $50 million to cause the closure of these two very important medical facilities....
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