Members from Brooklyn lobby lawmakers in Albany to preserve health care services at Kingsboro Psychiatric Center and SUNY Downstate Hospital.

More than 50 members met individually and as a group with Brooklyn area legislators asking for their support to make sure health care is available to those in need in central Brooklyn.

The meeting, hosted by Assemblyman Vito Lopez, gave members an opportunity to educate lawmakers on the danger of losing services in an area where there is a critical need for hospital beds serving the underprivileged. A health care restructuring plan currently under consideration would deny access to lower income areas and shift services instead to more affluent communities.