HackensackUMC at Pascack Valley plans new emergency room
NOVEMBER 9, 2014 LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2014, 12:16 AM
BY LINDY WASHBURN
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
Nearly 18 months after a bankrupt Pascack Valley Hospital reopened as a modernized, all-single-room facility, its for-profit owners are embarking on a project to relocate and expand the emergency department.
The planned $14 million renovation at HackensackUMC at Pascack Valley, as it is now known, would move the emergency room from the back of the hospital to the front, more than doubling its size and adding a new ambulance drop-off and an entrance for walk-ins, said the new acting CEO, Mark Sparta, who took over last week.
It’s a big investment in a 128-bed hospital whose liftoff has been slower than expected, with operating losses of nearly $20 million last year and an average census of just 37 patients a night.
But Robert C. Garrett, president of Hackensack University Medical Center and its parent hospital network, said those numbers do not reflect the potential for growth.
https://www.northjersey.com/news/hackensackumc-at-pascack-valley-plans-new-emergency-room-1.1129675
Oh the humanity, lets start Save our Westwood campaign to boycott this expansion!
Unlike Valley, Pascack Valley is no where near any residential neighborhood…
nice try though Audrey.
And what is the average census per night ? I would love to hear one Valley supporter comment on this figure.
Interesting that they don’t get all the traffic that was supposed to go there.
Why did the original hospital go broke? Lack of customers?
Why was Valley so concerned about this place as it appears that it is not really any competition at all?
Valley gets all of the traffic. And it’s a traffic jam once you are waiting on line. The general attitude is much like that you get at the post office. But they always get paid.
#4 – from what I remember, the management of the former PVH spent a fortune on renovations including VERY expensive administrative facilities that added nothing to the bottom line. Increased spending without increasing revenue.