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Yetta Kurland filed a lawsuit in State Supreme Court on behalf of patients, employees, and area residents.

She says closing the hospital violates New York State health laws.

Kurland says the state Health Department has not yet approved St. Vincent's closure plan.

The attorneys for the plaintiffs also want to look at St. Vincent's financial records.

"The issue should be framed as to why St Vincent's is so rapidly doing this without any kind of public comment, and without any kind of disclosure, or transparency," Kurland said.

"We've asked our local officials, which they have turned really a deaf ear to all of our pleas," said Michael Cormier of the New York State Nurses Association. "I don't know what's going to happen, and I hope and pray that something will happen by this lawsuit."

St. Vincent's is not commenting on the suit.

State health officials tell NY1 the hospital has been given approval for everything it has done so far, including Tuesday's announcement that the Greenwich Village facility will no longer accept psychiatric patients via ambulance.

The hospital says patients can still walk in to the emergency department to be treated.