Rockland Sues Over Failed Summit Park Deal, Seeks $16 Million

NEW CITY, N.Y. -- Another salvo has been fired in the long battle over the failure of a $32 million deal to sell a long-term care hospital in Pomona, according to a report on lohud.com

Rockland Executive Ed Day has accused the would-be buyer of the Summit Park Hospital and Nursing Care Center in Pomona of misleading the county about his ability to close the deal. The county is suing Shalom Braunstein for $16 million.
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Shalom Braunstein, CEO of Sympaticare Health, is suing Rockland County for $5.9 million, blaming it for the collapse last fall of a $32 million deal to buy a long-term care hospital in Pomona.
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Carol Reif

04/13/2016 5:30 p.m.

Rockland County, sued by the would-be buyer, Monsey businessman Shalom Braunstein, chief executive officer of Sympaticare Health, has fired back with a lawsuit of its own, claiming that he knew he was in no position to buy the Summit Park Hospital and Nursing Care Center, the lohud.com report said.

County Executive Ed Day told lohud.com that Braunstein had neither the money nor the approvals needed to close the deal.

The county, which is seeking $16 million, said Braunstein is in breach of his contract, while the Sympaticare Health executive is asking that the county fork over $5.9 million in lost fees and damages, according to lohud.com and previous media reports.

To read the lohud.com article, click here.

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