Stony Brook Hospital To Lose Millions After Feds Cut Grant

STONY BROOK, NY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday that the federal government canceled a grant that awarded billions of dollars to the state's health care system, costing Long Island hospitals millions.

In 2014, the state won an $8 billion grant from the federal government to transition health care services from being primarily hospital-driven to being more community-based. The goal was to decrease health care costs.

The state had already been awarded $7.4 billion of the money, but Cuomo said he found out late last week that the federal government was cutting off the last $600 million of the grant.

"This past Friday we learned of the Trump administration's latest assault on the state of New York — $8 billion in cuts to our healthcare system," Cuomo said in a release. "Healthcare should be beyond politics and it is unconscionable that the federal administration is politicizing the lives of New Yorkers — primarily senior citizens. Make no mistake: New York will marshal all our allies, including our congressional delegation, to fight these cuts tooth and nail until New York receives the full funding we deserve."

Stony Brook University Hospital is one of the two institutions impacted on Long Island. The cuts are taking away $21,289,481 from the hospital. The projects the funds were earmarked for were planned but had not yet begun, Newsday reported.

Nassau University Medical Center is losing out on $52,577,847.