Flushing Hospital rallies after beating bankruptcy

By Chris Fuchs

Back in 1996, the 114-year-old Flushing Hospital Medical Center faced an inauspicious future. Plagued with operational difficulties and financial woes, its petition in June 1998 for Chapter 11 bankruptcy relief was seen as the last straw in its floundering attempts to move toward solvency.

And then in March 1999, Jamaica Hospital took over Flushing