Trustees of the financiallys truggling Maimonides Hospital, located in heavily orthodox Jewish south Brooklyn, filed a lawsuit early this week to stop a government takeover of the 80-year-old medical facility.

Maimonides’ leadership plans to merge with the city’s public hospital system — Health + Hospitals — converting the private, independent hospital into a city-run facility overseen by a board and president/CEO appointed by the mayor.

A part of the merger, Maimonides would receive a desperately needed $2.2 billion over five years through a state grant, according to a spokesperson for the cash-strapped hospital.

But trustees of the medical center and nearby Borough Park residents, particularly Jewish locals, fear the level of care at a public Maimonides — named after 12th-century Ra

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