Pascack Valley hospital in Westwood seeks to move ER
JULY 2, 2015 LAST UPDATED: THURSDAY, JULY 2, 2015, 12:30 AM
BY SARAH NOLAN
MANAGING EDITOR |
PASCACK VALLEY COMMUNITY LIFE
Two years after reopening its doors as Hackensack University Medical Center (HUMC) at Pascack Valley, the hospital is before the Westwood Planning Board with an application to relocate its emergency room.
During a June 25 public hearing, hospital chief executive officer (CEO) Emily Holliman said the updates are part of HUMC at Pascack Valley’s “long-range plan to expand,” and will include relocating the emergency department from the rear of the building, to the front, which she said will “provide for a much-enhanced department for patients” with better access.
The plans also call for dedicated, separate entrances for emergency medical vehicles and walk-in patients or visitors, a security vestibule and bereavement room, as well as a drop-off area for patients or visitors, and continued valet parking, a service the hospital currently offers.
The new location will essentially double the square footage of the emergency department to 22,000 square feet, Holliman said, and provide 25 private patient rooms, including five pediatric treatment rooms, which the hospital does not currently have.
It will allow for direct access to several other departments, from the emergency department, improving the flow of the department.
Holliman said that while the hospital currently sees six or seven inbound ambulances per 24 hours, she anticipates with the new department it will be able to handle 14 a day, and double annual Emergency Room visits from 18,000 a year to 37,000. The new emergency department will be located in an area of the hospital that is not currently being utilized – the old obstetrics unit, Holliman said.
“This new department will allow us to grow and expand in the future and continue to provide high quality, efficient service,” she said.
https://www.northjersey.com/news/hospital-seeks-to-move-er-1.1366722
Pascack Valley to “grow and expand” “long-range plan to expand”, can’t be true. Valley said there is an oversupply of rooms, and Gwen said Valley doesn’t lie.
No need for Valley expansion anymore, it’s just arms race overkill. Hackensack much better, anyway
My God, a REAL PLAN ! And how smart were they to buy it in the first place ?
I was there 2 weeks ago….the facility is clean and very quiet….thumbs up !