Voices of Support
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Kevin J. O’Toole, New Jersey Senator, District 40 “As you know, there is a substantial amount of discord and a flood of objections raised about the proposal by an out-of-state private equity firm to re-open the now defunct Pascack Valley Hospital as a profit-making center. As Senator representing parts of Bergen, Passaic and Essex Counties, I join my voice and those of my constituents to urge the rejection of the ill-conceived proposal to re-open Pascack Valley Hospital.” Read full letter (download 484K pdf) |
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Loretta Weinberg, New Jersey Senator, District 37 “In our view, granting this approval to open an acute care hospital at the former PVH location would represent irrational health policy and send the wrong message to New Jersey residents and the entire health care industry during a time of fiscal restraint…” Read full letter (download 129K pdf) |
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Gordon M. Johnson, New Jersey Assemblyman, District 37 “If a new hospital is permitted to open in Westwood, my community hospital — Englewood Hospital — would be devastated. It is estimated that Englewood Hospital would lose more than $20 million. To survive, clinics would be closed, services would be reduced, and over 500 union and non-union jobs would be eliminated — possibly affecting the 451 African American and 372 Hispanic employees.” Read full letter (download 650K pdf) |
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Michael J. Wildes, Former Mayor of Englewood “To build a new facility at the site of the former Pascack Valley Hospital would be a mistake, one that could end up providing worse – not better – care for local residents.” Read full OpEd here. |
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Dr. Bruce C. Vladeck, Executive Director, Ernst & Young’s Health Sciences Advisory Services and member of the New Jersey Commission on Rationalizing Healthcare Resources. “I was astonished to learn recently that Hackensack University Medical Center has filed a Certificate of Need application to reopen the Pascack Valley Hospital as an acute-care facility.” Read full letter (download 46K pdf) |
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Michael Schnieders, Former Executive Vice President/Administrator, Good Samaritan Hospital “I believe that increasing capacity and beds in an area that already has too much capacity and too many beds will only serve to weaken, destabilize and reduce the quality of the region’s healthcare services.” Read full letter (download 44K pdf) |
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David H. Freed, President and CEO, Nyack Hospital “I strongly believe that patients are not well served by opening a new hospital in Westwood. It will only exacerbate the regional oversupply of hospitals and hospital beds.” Read full letter (download 53K pdf) |
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Herbert Pardes, M.D., President and CEO, New York-Presbyterian Healthcare System “Re-opening a hospital where there has been no lapse in access to care, or quality of programs and services, goes against sound healthcare planning for today and the future.” Read full letter (download 43K pdf) |
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Kenneth L. Davis, M.D., President and CEO, The Mount Sinai Medical Center “I have to think…about the long-term health of all facilities in our region. It is with this perspective that I am writing to oppose the opening of an acute care facility at the former Pascack Valley Hospital (PVH) site.” Read full letter (download 838K pdf) |
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Gary Carter, former president of New Jersey Hospital Association “I wonder how the state could ever accept an application to essentially reopen Pascack Valley Hospital when its own commission indicated that the area had too many hospitals.” Read full OpEd here or (download 646K pdf) |
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James Ahearn, columnist, The Record “In fact, the closing of Pascack Valley seems to have been providential. It was exactly the sort of outcome that the Reinhardt Commission anticipated and supported. Most of Pascack Valley Hospital has been closed for nearly a year now, and nobody has gone without care. The state would have to approve reopening it. The application should be denied.” Read his opinion column here (download 751K pdf) |
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Linda Hunter, RN, Director, Graduate Program in Health Care Management, College of St. Elizabeth “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.” Read her letter of support here (download 380K pdf) |
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More Letters of Support
| David P. Hunter, member, New Jersey Commission on Rationalizing Healthcare Resources. “As a member of the New Jersey Commission on Rationalizing Healthcare Resources, I am writing you to express my strong concerns about the proposed re-opening of the former Pascack Valley Hospital by Legacy Health Partners and Hackensack University Hospital…” (download 41 K pdf) |
| Resolution from the New Jersey Hospital Association to Heather Howard, J.D., Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services. (download 109K pdf) |
| Westwood Physician Leonard J. Lyon, MD, FACP, FACC; and Emerson Resident Nancy Russo; in separate letters to Pascack Valley Community Life. (download 369 K pdf) |
| Mayor and Council of the Borough of Tenafly pass resolution supporting Englewood Hospital and Medical Center’s fight to maintain financial strength and high quality care. (Download full PDF, 42K) |
| Englewood City Council voices it opposition to the re-opening of the former Pascack Valley Hospital as an acute care facility. (Download full PDF, 476K) |
| Chaplaincy Advisory Board Resolution in opposition to the opening or reopening of a general acute care facility 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. (Download full PDF, 928K) |
