The area’s basic headlines 24 hours after the meeting read, ‘Hackensack University Medical Center, another step closer to reopening a community hospital.’ The State Health Planning Board (SHPB) voted 5-1 at the Nov. 29 meeting, recommending Commissioner Mary O’Dowd approve HUMC’s Certificate of Need (CN) application, in combination with the DOH staff report’s 13 recommendations. TO READ MORE, click here
December 12, 2011
June 19, 2010
How Do Facts Play Into A Public Decision?
It’s interesting that Valley Hospital and its host community, Ridgewood, have opposing views to its ‘renewal,’ aka, growth. Valley sees it as a requirement to meet future demand and opportunity. Ridgewood sees it as an adjacent school safety concern, traffic generator, air polluter, noise producer and tax impact. A recent Record editorial opinion sees the hospital’s expansion as a necessity. (The Record also notes their observation was an independent thought, while citing their publisher serves on Valley Hospital’s President’s Council, a voluntary hospital advisory board. Click HERE to read their editorial.) Conflicting concerns that ask which ‘facts’ should be given priority in a public decision process? TO READ MORE, click here
January 18, 2010
Hospital Financial Challenges – Whose Fault
Too many hospitals view themselves in a different world when it comes to the business of services. A recent Record article, ‘New Jersey hospitals continue to suffer financially,’ underscored such in quoting NJ Hospital Association’s president Betsy Ryan, who stated; “Just like other businesses, hospitals continue to feel the economic pressures of the recession, but unlike other businesses, hospitals can’t simply adjust by reducing their output or cutting back on hours.” TO READ MORE, click here
April 6, 2009
NonProfit Profit
Mike Kelly, a columnist for the Record, offered in his (April 2nd Column) an editorial on the state of affairs in New Jersey’s hospitals. It revolves around, “a persistent worry by local hospitals about losing money.” Unfortunately the column appears to be based more on Valley and Englewood’s rhetoric then any substantive facts. TO READ MORE, click here
November 17, 2008
Opposition Hospitals Financial Stability Solution
The opposition has based their objections to a reconstituted hospital on the threat such would pose to their financial health. They’ve thrown out a dozen or so pretexts centered on the State’s subjective study toward hospital challenges, supplementing them with cautions of raised patient risks. TO READ MORE, click here
