A Healthier Future for Brooklyn

As New York City’s only public academic medical center, SUNY Downstate has dedicated the last 160 years to training a diverse, world-class healthcare workforce, advancing biomedical science through cutting-edge research, and providing high-quality care to Brooklyn residents. While SUNY Downstate students, staff, and alumni continue to tackle systemic health disparities in Brooklyn and beyond, years of financial instability and a hospital facility in disrepair have put the short-term viability and long-term success of our hospital facility in jeopardy.

To address these urgent, ongoing challenges and ensure that SUNY Downstate can continue pursuing its mission, we are launching a process to establish an ambitious, clear-eyed plan that will transform the institution and build a sustainable and healthy future for generations to come–with a vibrant, thriving medical school at its core. We anticipate the plan will include deepening partnerships with other Brooklyn hospitals so Downstate can relocate services and Downstate can provide these services in collaboration with other excellent healthcare facilities.

The new Downstate will be better equipped than ever to meet the challenges of the moment we live in: a healthcare worker shortage, persistent health inequities compounded by economic insecurity, and a diminishing pipeline of medical research geared toward finding practical solutions to public health crises.

We’re excited to work alongside partners across the government, health care, and academic sectors, and especially in the Brooklyn neighborhoods we proudly serve, to develop a realistic community-centered, forward-looking, sustainable blueprint for transforming SUNY Downstate. At the end of the process, our institution will be well-positioned to continue training excellent, diverse healthcare professionals; ensuring the communities surrounding Downstate get the quality, affordable health care they deserve; and tackling the health disparities that so many New Yorkers – from Brooklyn to Buffalo – face on a daily basis.

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