HUMC along with Legacy Partners did a true “renewal” of Pascack Valley by renovating and modernizing the EXISTING building of Pascack Valley. Google HUMC PV.com and you will see 128 single patient rooms with new equipment and a wide array of services. They did so, without wasting huge sums of money and without being hostile and disruptive to the host community . In HUMC PV , Westwood now has a well functioning for profit hospital properly sized in a proper location which pays its fair share of municipal taxes. A win win for all .
Valley could/ should have taken this course of action to widen its regional coverage instead of attempting to close PV but they took the low road again. The courts saw right through Valley’s doubletalk and their legal machinations failed. Same will happen with their combative attempts to bully the village into a improper overbuild. Maybe a few Valley trustees with integrity and smarts would consider approaching HUMC/Legacy partnership and seeing if they would be interested in buying Valley and renewing it like PV to be a further part of their wide network. If valley is incapable of plotting out a future beyond over expanding on a wrongly situated property then let others.
