Dozens of activists from the New York State Nurses Association and the National Alliance on Mental Illness rallied June 30 outside of New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital to protest plans to close the hospital’s psychiatric units at a time when mental-health issues are on the rise.
Staff said that in late April, hospital administrators closed the two psych units, which contain 50 beds, in order to convert them into an ICU unit for COVID patients.
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