On Nov. 29 the State’s Health Planning Board will hold its 2nd and final meeting at 9:30 AM in the East Windsor at the Holiday Inn National Conference Center, located at 399 Monmouth St. Final comments will be heard as to whether or not a new 128-bed hospital should reopen at the Pascack Valley Hospital (PVH) site in Westwood. TO READ MORE, click here
November 15, 2011
October 16, 2011
Certificate of Need, Public Hearing – Oct. 19th
The Department of Health Planning Board will hold a public hearing Wednesday, October 19th in the auditorium at Westwood Regional High School in Washington Township. Its purpose will be to hear testimony from the public as to whether a hospital of any sort is needed in Westwood. It’s a procedural activity in the Certificate of Need (CN) process. It IS NOT an assurance of any affirmative decision. TO READ MORE, click here
January 26, 2009
Access — A Geographic Requirement
Fred M. Jacobs, M.D., J.D., the former Dept. of Health Commissioner was interviewed by the Physician’ News Digest, on the topic of NJ hospital resource rationalization. He noted, “One of the essential characteristics … not listed in the report, is the travel time from one hospital to the hospital that may survive it in a region. That travel time depends a lot, particularly in the northern part of the state, on the time of day and the traffic patterns.” In the face of this fact, in contrast to Valley and Englewood’s ads, why wouldn’t a new hospital in northern Bergen County be a consideration? TO READ MORE, click here
December 29, 2008
Put Patient’s Lives Over Rhetoric
- “The foundation of northern New Jersey’s healthcare system is at risk.“
- “This for-profit joint venture could significantly damage the financial strength of the other Bergen County hospitals, thereby destabilizing the region’s access to healthcare and reversing the benefits that have been provided to local residents.“
- “When an oversupply of hospital beds floods a market, services and equipment are duplicated, driving up costs. Existing hospitals, their employees and the communities they serve pay a very serious price. The public bears the costs while profits go to a few.“
The issue is whether the DOH should transfer PVH’s extended certificate of need (CN) to a renewed hospital in Westwood. When you break down the foregoing statements from Valley and Englewood’s fantasy of fear website, their opposition is focused on their own ‘nonprofit‘ margins. — The so-called ‘nonprofits‘ that are funding their current ‘expansions.‘ TO READ MORE, click here
