Hackensack Medical Center has deal to merge with Meridian Health
MAY 12, 2015, 2:24 PM LAST UPDATED: TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015, 5:07 PM
BY MARY JO LAYTON
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
Hackensack University Medical Center and its parent company have signed a definitive agreement with Meridian Health to merge the two systems to merge, a deal that will create the state’s largest hospital network.
The new organization, to be called Hackensack Meridian Health, will employ more than 23,000 people and have more than $3.4 billion in revenues, eclipsing Barnabas Health, currently the state’s largest health care system.
The deal, which is undergoing regulatory review, will create a system with 11 hospitals and two children’s hospitals from Bergen to Ocean counties and a large network of outpatient services, including surgery centers, rehab facilities and cancer care.
“This will be a game changer in health care,” said Robert C. Garrett, president and CEO of Hackensack University Health Network.
So will the lofty modifier “University” be deleted from the signage at the Hackensack campus? One would always wonder where the classrooms, professors and students were…
Audrey has her work cut out for her to run her very now “system”. Everyone ahead of her on the highest paid NJ Hospital CEOs runs a “system”, but somehow she gets $2 million a year for just running a single “hospital”