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>One-stop patient care: Medical malls becoming alternatives to hospitals
By Mary Jo Layton  The Record (Hackensack N.J.)
First Posted: June 15, 2011 – 4:02 am

HACKENSACK, N.J. — Across the country, in suburbs and in cities, about 50 medical malls have sprouted up in closed hospitals, bankrupt shopping centers and other sites to deliver health care to communities.

The advantages of medical malls are one-stop shopping for patients — they provide everything from pediatric checkups to same-day surgery. They also allow physicians to expand their services and hospitals to improve market share by enhancing their outpatient services, experts say.

While Hackensack University Medical Center forges ahead with an application to reopen Pascack Valley Hospital, its opponents say a medical mall with outpatient care would better serve a region they believe already has too many hospital beds.

https://www.therepublic.com/view/story/HEALTH-CNS-MEDICALMALL_5349320/HEALTH-CNS-MEDICALMALL_5349320/

>fahrvergnügen!  VW shot a commercial today in Ridgewood 

>Rationalizations justifying the high school’s disappointing placement rate at Ivy and equivalent colleges very disappointing 

I hear a lot of rationalizations justifying the high school’s disappointing placement rate at Ivy and equivalent colleges.

What I don’t hear from most of these comments is an awareness that we have a problem that needs to be addressed. When our top kids can’t get into the nation’s top colleges or earn National Merit Semifinalist status, then alarm bells should be going off and people should start thinking about how to fix the problem instead of trying to act like nothing is wrong

>Ridgewood Chamber Guide features Valley Hospital Centerfold 

Last week Village residents were subjected to one of the most insulting Valley propaganda to date! The Ridgewood Chamber of Commerce delivered, door to door, the newest version of the Chamber Guide featuring a centerfold considered “obscene” by many Ridgewoodians! The multi-media image mixing actual imagery with renderings, coupled with an incredibly misleading paragraph of text suggesting the proposed expansion is a fait accompli, should be offensive to any Villager especially members of our Village Council.

A word of caution to the Ridgewood Chamber of Commerce: a huge majority of Ridgewood Residents, who actively shop downtown Ridgewood, are opposed to the massive expansion plan of Valley Hospital. For a time Valley engaged in a little PR scheme sending “scrubs” into the business district to give the illusion of a “presence” in our shops. That illusion quickly dissipated as most Valley “scrubs” are not Ridgewood Residents nor are they interested in supporting our Village Downtown.

While it is true the Chamber guide is paid for with advertising dollars, and Valley paid for the centerfold to advance their propaganda, page 16 only serves to exacerbate the matter since it seems Valley garnered more “face time” in the guide than any other entity. There is no distinction as to what is a paid advertisement nor a disclaimer that a Valley Hospital maintains a position on the Chamber Board of Directors.

Ridgewood Chamber President, Tom Hillman, should immediately issue a statement that Valley’s advertisement is exactly that and by no means should the centerfold ad be construed as an endorsement of the massive Valley expansion by the Ridgewood Chamber of Commerce.

>Ouch: 1.9 Million Fewer Americans Have Jobs Today Than When Obama Signed Stimulus
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
By Matt Cover

(CNSNews.com) – Twenty-eight months after Congress passed President Obama’s signature economic stimulus law, and nearly one year after he declared the summer of 2010 to be “Recovery Summer,” 1.9 million fewer people are employed.

In February 2009, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that 141.7 million people were employed. By the end of May 2011 – the last month for which data are available – that number had fallen to 139.8 million, a difference of 1.9 million.

https://cnsnews.com/news/article/after-28-months-stimulus-spending-19-mil

>Ridgecrest – Senior Citizen Housing in Ridgewood

Applications are now being accepted for the Waiting List for the Ridgewood Senior Housing Apartments located on Ridge Road in Ridgewood, NJ.

Beginning Wednesday, June 1, 2011, applications are available by mail or in person –

Housing Authority of Bergen County, Occupancy Dept., 25 Rockwood Place, Suite 205, Englewooe, NJ 07631-4963 – from 9AM to 4PM, Monday through Friday.

In order to be placed on the Waiting List, applicatins must be postmarked or received at the Housing Authority no later than Wednesday, July 13, 2011. After this date will be closed and applications will no longer be accepted.

Applications will be placed on the waiting list by the date and time that it was received at the main office.

In order to be eligible to apply, applicants must be 62 years old or older, and or deemed disabled. Total household annual gross income cannot exceed the following income limits: 1 person – $32,300 or 2 persons $36,900