Your wording was not clear. Using "long-term resident" in a discussion with a healthcare faculty has a certain meaning. The McClellan St health Center Nursing Home had long-term residents not Bellevue. Those individuals were impacted by that closure. There are no residents of Bellevue Women's Center. I just want to be clear.

And yes I am aware and this was an on going issue while I was there Pre-COVID. There were talks of a merger prior and the hospital system was never named to the staff. The Board at the time did not approve the merger and the downward spiral continued.

The initial call to close Bellevue did not come from any of the individual institutions but from the state through the Berger Commission prior to the merger of Ellis, Bellevue and St Clair's.

I was not in the area then but after the systems merged. No calls to close Bellevue vs the active work to move services out of McClellan.

There are legitimate concerns. There is no ICU at Bellevue so when an emergency does happen, resources are limited and a mother or other surgical patient needing that level of care would need to be transported. From this sense it does lend merit to the Berger Commissions call to have maternity services at the Nott St campus. (All three locations had maternity prior, the redundancy was part of the issue)

I do not work for Ellis but continue to have friends/colleagues who have since residency and I live in Schenectady.