Hospitals fight plan for N.J. centerThe Journal News — Rockland County WESTWOOD, N.J. - Leaders of both of Rockland’s acute-care hospitals are opposing a plan for a new for-profit facility just over the county line in Bergen County, N.J., where Pascack Valley Hospital operated until it went bankrupt a year ago. (more…) Mayors put local hospitals on noticeThe Record The mayors of 10 Pascack Valley towns have told hospital executives who oppose the reopening of Pascack Valley Hospital in Westwood to back off — or else. (more…) Nation’s hospitals thrive as N.J. facilities struggleNews Release — New Jersey Hospital Association Garden State Stands Apart in Hospital Closures and Bankruptcies Bergen County doesn’t need Pascack Valley hospitalThe Record — Letter to the Editor I am dismayed that the state Department of Health would even consider Hackensack University Medical Center’s filing for a certificate of need to open a 128-bed acute care hospital at the site of the former Pascack Valley Hospital. (more…) Legacy’s investment at HUMC NorthPVH Community Life — Letter to the Editor No one disputes the fact that the Pascack Valley community needs and deserves emergency room care in our own neighborhood. (more…) Former PVH staff member opposes hospital re-openingPVH Community Life — Letter to the Editor Although I was on the medical staff of Pascack Valley Hospital for nearly 40 years before it closed last fall I oppose its reopening. (more…) Hospitals debate re-opening of PVH as for-profit entityPVH Community Life As the Certificate of Need hearing for the re-opening of a full service, acute-care hospital at the former site of Pascack Valley Hospital (PVH) nears, Valley Hospital in Ridgewood and Englewood Hospital Medical Center (EHMC) are raising questions about whether the prospective new facility is in the best interest of not just the Pascack Valley, but the larger healthcare system of Northern New Jersey. (more…) Ahearn: Too much care can be badThe Record The situation at Pascack Valley is harder to understand. NEW JERSEY has too many hospitals. They compete wastefully. Two years ago, Governor Corzine appointed a commission to study the problem. He chose as chairman a nationally recognized expert on health economics, a Princeton professor, Uwe Reinhardt. (more…) Concerns over reopening hospitalThe Record WE WOULD like to correct a number of inaccuracies that appeared in a recent article on Pascack Valley Hospital by J. Fletcher Creamer Jr. (”New Life for Pascack Valley Hospital,” Other Views, Oct. 2). (more…) NJ Hospital Association opposes unneeded hospitalResolution “The New Jersey Hospital Association opposes the opening or reopening of any general acute care hospital within a defined region where a determination has been made, through a formal analysis by, or at the request of, the state of New Jersey, that there is excess bed capacity or excess hospitals within that region that can adequately provide access to care.” |
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