HUMC along with Legacy Partners did a true “renewal” of Pascack Valley by renovating and modernizing the EXISTING building of Pascack Valley. Google HUMC PV.com and you will see 128 single patient rooms with new equipment and a wide array of services. They did so, without wasting huge sums of money and without being hostile and disruptive to the host community . In HUMC PV , Westwood now has a well functioning for profit hospital properly sized in a proper location which pays its fair share of municipal taxes. A win win for all .
Valley could/ should have taken this course of action to widen its regional coverage instead of attempting to close PV but they took the low road again. The courts saw right through Valley’s doubletalk and their legal machinations failed. Same will happen with their combative attempts to bully the village into a improper overbuild. Maybe a few Valley trustees with integrity and smarts would consider approaching HUMC/Legacy partnership and seeing if they would be interested in buying Valley and renewing it like PV to be a further part of their wide network. If valley is incapable of plotting out a future beyond over expanding on a wrongly situated property then let others.
1) Valley-Trys for an unreasonable expansion= Fail
2) Valley-Try’s again with no significant changes= Fails again
3) Now Valley, sues Ridgewood because we didn’t give them what they wanted? What part of the H-Zone and Master Plan didn’t you get? You can’t accept that your proposal would be a detriment to Ridgewood? Oh, that’s right you just don’t care. You are a Bully, you are Spiteful, and you should reconsider this suit before you do irreversible damage. Think about that one! We all have choices in healthcare…I choose not to go to Valley until they take their med’s and stop this suit. Valley’s actions just shock me. Reminds me of a song: “What we’re you Thinking”? Valley, is a spoiled little rich Hospital. They are showing their true colors and it ain’t pretty!
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Yes the hospital is spiteful…they just want to bully you.
Take their Meds? What?
“Valley is a spoiled little rich hospital”…..coming from you…a spoiled little Ridgewoodite? Please.
If people think that HUMC did not bully others to get to where they are they are dreaming or just not pay attention because they did not live in Hackensack all those years ago.
You got that right #3
Valley has already lost to HUMC. They’ve wasted 8 years trying to railroad a plan through that never had a shot at passing. Now at best they’ll get a watered down version of their plan which will be way too little and way too late to compete with Hackensack and Meridian.
If your kid falls off his bike take him to Valley – a boycott won’t accomplish anything. Sure, go ahead and have your babies at Valley too. Valley is a decent neighborhood hospital – run by people whose ambitions greatly exceed their abilities.
You are 100% correct and it is exactly why the residents of Ridgewood are fighting. We are not Hackensack today and we will not be bullied into becoming Hackensack tomorrow .
PV was correctly renewed.