>State health officials examine the proposal by Hackensack University Medical Center and , Legacy Hospital Partners, to spend nearly $40 million to renovate the former Pascack Valley Hospital
N.J. reviews hospital plan near Pearl River
WESTWOOD, N.J. — 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.
Hackensack University Medical Center submitted the Certificate of Need application last week to the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services.
When the project was first announced in 2008, top officials from both Nyack Hospital and Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern wrote letters to New Jersey officials urging them not to approve the new, for-profit hospital at the Pascack location.
