Sign at the front door of the once bustling front entrance to Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital which shut down on April 9.
Sign at the front door of the once bustling front entrance to Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital which shut down on April 9. ( Photo: Keith J. Kelly)

On April 9, after what it said was a decade of losses, Mount Sinai shut down Beth Israel, ending a long battle with activists who fought to keep it open. We need to make sure this never happens again, says the writer.

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Generations of New Yorkers relied on Mount Sinai Beth Israel. As of April 9, that era is over. Hospital executives, eager to cut costs and emboldened by weak politicians without the guts to intervene, sealed the fate of our community hospital, which has served us for 135 years.

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