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Final hearing on reopening of Pascack Valley Hospital postponed
The Record
Friday, October 28, 2011
MARY JO LAYTON
The final hearing about Hackensack University Medical Center’s plan to reopen Pascack Valley Hospital has been postponed for several weeks. (more…)
Push for Pascack hospital is political
Northjersey.com
Thursday, October 27, 2011
SAM PASSOW, COLUMNIST
To say the movement to open a new hospital on the site of the closed Pascack Valley Hospital is not about politics is naïve. (more…)
Englewood, Valley continue objections to site’s opening
Northern Valley Surbanite
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
STEPHANIE NODA
Supporters of a proposal to reopen a hospital in Westwood voiced their desire at a hearing held Oct. 19 by state officials. Representatives from other local hospitals, however, are concerned that the return of a hospital to the former Pascack Valley Hospital site would lower the quality of existing facilities in the area. Englewood Hospital and Medical Center and Valley Hospital in Ridgewood have been vocal in lobbying against the efforts of Hackensack University Medical Center to reopen Pascack Valley Hospital with the help of a for-profit company.
Pascack hospital battle to get airing
The Record
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
MARY JO LAYTON AND LINDY WASHBURN
Opponents of the proposal to reopen the former Pascack Valley Hospital in Westwood launched an eleventh-hour salvo to block the project Tuesday, as both sides prepared for a public hearing tonight in Bergen County‘s epic health care battle. (more…)
Valley, Englewood hospitals present last stand as Pascack Valley battle heads to hearing
NJ Biz
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
BETH FITZGERALD
On the eve of a Health Department hearing on Hackensack University Medical Center’s plan to reopen the former Pascack Valley Hospital, in Westwood, opponents on Tuesday released new studies they commissioned that support their argument that Bergen County has excess hospital beds and reopening the hospital will divert hundreds of patients and millions in revenue from Valley Hospital, in Ridgewood, and Englewood Hospital and Medical Center. (more…)
Battle over N.J. hospital
Wall Street Journal
Monday, October 17, 2011
JOSEPH DE AVILA
A plan to resurrect a shuttered New Jersey hospital—potentially the first such facility to re-open after two decades of closures in the state—is drawing fire from competing medical centers that say it would weaken health care in the region. (more…)
Opponents file dozens of documents in bid to block Pascack Valley’s reopening
NJ Biz
Friday, October 14, 2011
BETH FITZGERALD
With state Health Commissioner Mary E. O’Dowd expected to decide next month whether Pascack Valley Hospital, in Westwood, should be reopened by Hackensack University Medical Center, opponents on Friday released dozens of documents and a lengthy statement arguing there is no need for the facility’s 128 additional hospital beds, which they say will harm Bergen County hospitals that are now stronger financially in the wake of Pascack’s 2007 closure. (more…)
Public hearing on hospital set for Wednesday, Oct. 19
PASCACK VALLEY COMMUNITY LIFE
Thursday, October 13, 2011
MANAGING EDITOR
The application to reopen the old Pascack Valley Hospital was deemed complete last week by the state and a public hearing was scheduled for Oct. 19. (more…)
Englewood hospital wants a public hearing in Englewood on reopening Pascack Valley Hospital
THE RECORD
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
BY BARBARA WILLIAMS
Leaders of Englewood Hospital and Medical Center are calling for a public hearing in Englewood over whether Pascack Valley Hospital should be reopened. (more…)
