>Hackensack University Medical Center awaits Pascack ruling
Hospital awaits Pascack ruling
Sunday, January 9, 2011
BY LINDY WASHBURN
THE RECORD
STAFF WRITER
The state Health Department has not decided whether to give Hackensack University Medical Center an opportunity to start over again with its application to reopen the former Pascack Valley Hospital.
“It is under review,” said Donna Leusner, a department spokesman, of Hackensack’s Dec. 16 petition to the state health commissioner.
The Westwood hospital closed more than three years ago.
Hackensack’s 2-inch-thick petition, obtained by The Record last week, asks Commissioner Poonam Alaigh to call for applications “to open a new hospital in Westwood.” But it recommends criteria that would allow only one entity — Hackensack and its for-profit partner — to apply.
“In view of the immediate need for this service, and the lead time involved in bringing a new hospital into operation,” the document says, “we recommend that applicants should be limited to those who own property that is currently zoned for hospital use” in Westwood.
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