New York City won’t meet its April 1 target to finalize a deal to fold Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn into the city’s public hospital system, after the parties failed to get the state attorney general’s office to sign off on the deal, officials said.
Any proposed nonprofit merger in New York requires approval from either the attorney general’s office or the state Supreme Court — and the parties will now have to seek judicial review instead. It wasn’t immediately clear how long such a review will take.
The delay is welcome news for members of the Orthodox Jewish community who oppose the city takeover and have filed multiple lawsuits to block the deal. Leaders at NYC Health and Hospitals and Maimonides have argued the merger will provide much-needed upgrades and financial stability to the 100-year-old medical center in Borough Park, while preserving its religious and cultural accommodations…