THE RECORD
Sunday, September 4, 2011
BY LINDY WASHBURN

The state Health Department is asking questions about Hackensack University Medical Center’s application to reopen Pascack Valley Hospital in Westwood, including whether a new hospital is needed.

Senior staff members reviewed Hackensack’s 2-inch-thick application for “completeness” and fired back two dozen questions. (more…)

THE RECORD
Friday, July 8, 2011
BY BARBARA WILLIAMS

Despite a state Supreme Court decision this week, opponents of the reopening of Pascack Valley Hospital will go back to court if the state gives a nod to the new medical center. (more…)

NJBiz
Monday, June 27, 2011
BY BETH FITZGERALD

A diverse group of New Jersey health care stakeholders is opposing the sale of city-owned Hoboken University Medical Center to the owners of Bayonne Medical Center, a for-profit hospital that’s generated controversy by going out of network and raising its rates, rather than negotiating fees with insurance carriers. (more…)

THE RECORD
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
BY LAURA LANDY, PRESIDENT AND CEO OF THE FANNIE E. RIPPEL FOUNDATION
A NATIONAL HEALTH CARE-FOCUSED FOUNDATION BASED IN MORRISTOWN.

HEALTH care in New Jersey is on an unsustainable trajectory. Costs are among the highest in the nation, yet quality is only average overall. That’s the finding of a recent study by the New Jersey-based Fannie E. Rippel Foundation, which I head.

The problem is being felt across the state, where local governments are under intense financial pressure from rising health care costs for employees. Private-sector employers feel the same pressure. (more…)

THE RECORD
Monday, June 13, 2011
BY MARY JO LAYTON

While Hackensack University Medical Center forges ahead with an application to reopen Pascack Valley Hospital, its opponents say a medical mall with outpatient care would better serve a region they believe already has too many hospital beds. (more…)

NJBIZ
Monday, June 13, 2011
BY BETH FITZGERALD

Hospital leaders across the state are talking about mergers as they gear up for the tough imperatives of federal health care reform: more and better medical care that somehow holds the line on spending. (more…)

Pascack Valley Community Life
Thursday, June 9, 2011
BY JASON BRAFF

The fate of a new hospital in Westwood is now in the hands of the state.

Hackensack University Medical Center (HUMC) delivered its application for certificate of need on June 1, the final day the state Department of Health and Senior Services would accept requests to open an acute-care hospital in Bergen County. (more…)

The Journal News
Monday, June 6, 2011
BY KHURRAM SAEED

Good Sam among foes of new facility 5 miles south of Pearl River

New Jersey officials have begun reviewing a plan that would open a new general acute-care hospital a few miles over the Rockland County border.

State health officials will examine the proposal by Hackensack University Medical Center and its partner, Legacy Hospital Partners, a private Texas company, to spend nearly $40 million to renovate the former Pascack Valley Hospital in Westwood, N.J. The proposed hospital would provide 128 beds and could open by the end of next year. (more…)

The Record
Tuesday, June 1, 2011
BY LINDY WASHBURN AND MARY JO LAYTON

Hackensack University Medical Center formally applied for state permission Wednesday to reopen Pascack Valley Hospital in Westwood as a 128-bed full-service community hospital. If approved, the for-profit hospital would open late next year.

The new plan aims to address the state’s looming physician shortage as well as provide patient care to the northeastern part of Bergen County, which has been underserved since Pascack closed due to bankruptcy in November 2007, said Robert C. Garrett, Hackensack’s president and chief executive officer. (more…)

Westwood-Washington Township Patch
Tuesday, June 1, 2011
BY MICHELLE SARTOR

PV Joint Venture, which includes Hackensack University Medical Center (HUMC) and LHP Hospital Group, Inc., filed a certificate of need application Wednesday with the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services to open a general acute care hospital on Old Hook Road in Westwood, the former site of Pascack Valley Hospital and the current home of an emergency room, HUMC North at Pascack Valley. (more…)