SAVED: Peninsula Hospital to remain open

Peninsula Hospital is no longer on life support.
According to board member Joe Mure, “the hospital is staying open.”
After weeks of rallies, meetings – and even orders to close – Peninsula, once operated by MediSys Health Network, has been purchased by Revival Home Health Care, founded in 1994 by Rabbi Jacob Spitzer, a Holocaust survivor in response to the aging of the Holocaust survivor population.
One Peninsula staffer wrote “Thank you revival! We are ready to continue providing the highest quality health care to the community, and all our new patients!” on the “Peninsula Save Our Hospital” Facebook page.
Though details of the deal are as yet unclear, it has been widely reported that Revival will take over not only Peninsula, but also its affiliated nursing home.
Repeated calls to Revival went unanswered as of press time, but Liz Sulik, Director of Public Affairs for Peninsula, posted that Todd Miller has been named Chief Restructuring Officer and will be working with the staff in place at the Hospital Center to restructure its operations.
“Revival is very proud to be able to step in and save PHC for the Rockaway community,” commented Miller, as posted on Facebook. “We know that the staff at the Hospital Center shares Revival’s values of providing quality health care for the community and we look forward to being able to continue the outstanding work already being done at the hospital. We are also very happy that Peninsula Hospital Center’s 104-year tradition of providing quality health care – close to home — will continue.”
The final approval rests with state health officials.
“This was a miracle move and it worked,” said an ecstatic Mure. “No one thought it was going to survive.
“We accomplished something that has never been accomplished before,” he continued. “I kept a promise a month ago that we were going to stay open and Peninsula is open. I walked out of that hospital yesterday noticing a lot of smiles on people’s faces – all the hard work was worth it.”
As to the takeover, Mure told The Courier, “The group has a great desire to make this hospital a place you want to go [for health care].”