From left: Gynecologic-Oncologist William Burke, M.D.; Robert Silverman, M.D., Co-Medical Director, The Valley Institute for Pain; Audrey Meyers, President and CEO, The Valley Hospital and Valley Health System; Alexander Zapolanski, M.D., Director of Cardiac Surgery, The Valley Hospital; and Joseph Pizzurro, M.D., Director of Orthopedic Surgery, The Valley Hospital.
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I am a supporter of some sort of modernization, without doubling size.
A reasonable discussion should have led to a compromise size.
Suing the Village because the legal process didn’t work in your favor is a bunch of bullshit. (and if my taxes go up Valley won’t get my donation$)
A reasonable discussion should have led to a compromise size.
Suing the Village because the legal process didn’t work in your favor is a bunch of bullshit. (and if my taxes go up Valley won’t get my donation$)
All of my doctors are at Valley, and I intend to voice my opinions on the lawsuit.
I do not like the idea of a ‘tax exempt status’ when the CEO is reportedly paid $3m dollars (as I read here-please correct if inaccurate) AND having Doctors that do not ‘participate’with any insurance (= anesthesiolgists) . Or billing patients for what insurance doesn’t cover… THEN paying the big salaries reported.What is the point of ” donating” ANYTHING to a business that is going out of it’s way to screw an entire town ? As a matter of principle, I shelved the idea of becoming a volunteer. Let them hire someone, since the people who do a highly questionable job of running the place can push some of that money down to those who are really doing the work.I loved the advertisement for the Valley Ball. As Valley sues the Village threatening to raise our taxes and destroy the community, it advertises for the Valley Ball in the middle of the Ridgewood News real estate section. Didn’t have my reading glasses on, but I think it said: “Party like you are on the Titanic. Throw on a dinner jacket and come donate so Valley can devote its dollars to paying lawyers to bring a lawsuit that devalues your property.”Valley’s gall is only surpassed by the gullibility of those who continue to support Valley.I would love to see the list of corporate sponsors for the Ball so I know what stores and restaurants to avoid. What self-respecting Villager (who isn’t on Valley’s social or monetary payroll) is going to attend?
I do not like the idea of a ‘tax exempt status’ when the CEO is reportedly paid $3m dollars (as I read here-please correct if inaccurate) AND having Doctors that do not ‘participate’with any insurance (= anesthesiolgists) . Or billing patients for what insurance doesn’t cover… THEN paying the big salaries reported.What is the point of ” donating” ANYTHING to a business that is going out of it’s way to screw an entire town ? As a matter of principle, I shelved the idea of becoming a volunteer. Let them hire someone, since the people who do a highly questionable job of running the place can push some of that money down to those who are really doing the work.I loved the advertisement for the Valley Ball. As Valley sues the Village threatening to raise our taxes and destroy the community, it advertises for the Valley Ball in the middle of the Ridgewood News real estate section. Didn’t have my reading glasses on, but I think it said: “Party like you are on the Titanic. Throw on a dinner jacket and come donate so Valley can devote its dollars to paying lawyers to bring a lawsuit that devalues your property.”Valley’s gall is only surpassed by the gullibility of those who continue to support Valley.I would love to see the list of corporate sponsors for the Ball so I know what stores and restaurants to avoid. What self-respecting Villager (who isn’t on Valley’s social or monetary payroll) is going to attend?
well put.
Don’t you mean Pfund raising!!
Don’t they list their corporate sponsors?
Listen, we will have to win by convincing the judge that Valley is wrong to destroy our town…. the tumult from building, the huge building.
I reside in the village and do not have any connections to Valley other than to sat Valley is a very good hospital and i will continue to support the hospital.
Once Valley gets the OK to double in size, won’t they flip their whole business anyway? Is that a rumor or is there some truth to it? Seems as if lately, that seems to be the buzz. Valley is on their way to selling off to some larger provider like HUMC or a similar competitor. This last attempt to sue the village is just a final attempt to maximize their profits on the upcoming sale…..
#4- And the benefits of building something this big are what ?
The foundation photos above were taken in JUNE
and now today there news?…..
It’s will keep the sun out of your living room
#6 !
Ha! Should have thought about that when you bought your house right next to valley…….
So sad, #8 that you are happy about the pain Valley is causing to fellow citizen. So in your opinion, whatever your neighbor does or wants to do on his property, even if it is not in line with the master plan for ridgewood is ok and it is simply your tough luck? What a jackass you are, #8.
If I did live “right next to Valley ” that would certainly be the only benefit. I just knew somebody, some where, would come up with one. Good job !!!
June of what year?
Although I don’t live “right next door to valley,” you finally came up with a benefit. You must be one of the Valley “experts” that tried to con the PB, and the rest of us. Good to see you back making a contribution to the dialogue.
Hit Audrey in the pocketbook….hopefully your doctor has privileges at Hackensack, Holy Name, St Joe’s in Paterson or Chilton.
Ok # 9 your another one who needs to put down the vodka glass…. Your comment MAKES NO SENSE WHAT SO EVER. Valley is not a “neighbor” ….they don’t bring me cookies….it’s a hospital that’s been there for a very long time serving thousands of people over the years. Any “pain” suffered is self inflicted and if the pain is that bad walk across the street to the emergency room…..
We should be about harnessing our first amendment rights to systematically annihilate whatever remains of Valley’s positive image. Many in Ridgewood regret the growing willingness of fee simple single-family detached homes to use lawn signs as a means to advance an issue about which they feel strongly. But the recent unprovoked initiation of litigation hostilities by parasite Valley Hospital against its host Ridgewood would appear tailor-made for such a strategy, such that for us to refrain from using it would be akin to continuing to rely on our trusty knife after our persistent foe has upgraded to a powerful firearm.
In other words, and though I am not without sympathy to those whose overriding concerns are aesthetic, and not moral or fiscal, the time has come to fight fire with fire.
I’ve invoked the parasite/host concept. Someone else earlier recalled Biblical imagery (“Yea, though I walk through the Valley of death, I fear no evil…). I would love consider what others might come up with.
This would seem to be a target-rich environment.
Next-Shoe-To-Drop Prediction: Disappointed in the result of its application to the planning board, frustrated that it’s friends on the Village Council have thus far failed to get the Village to fold like a cheap camera and settle on Valley-favorable terms, and eager to stay “on offense” and keep its perceived antagonists off-balance through the tactical use of chaos (a ‘la Rahm ‘Never let a crisis go to waste’ Emanuel), Valley’s Audrey Myers makes a deal with the Obama administration in its favored role as a “regional” healthcare asset to bring Ebola virus disease patients to Ridgewood for treatment.
#14–A simple question, for obvious reasons. Does Valley ever refer to the people who live in Ridgewood, including in the vicinity near the hospital, as their “neighbors ?” ( Answer: Very often, ESPECIALLY when it’s convenient and sounds really good )
And by the way, none of my neighbor’s have ever brought me cookies. but I have never expected them too. However, like most people in Ridgewood, we all expected Valley to manage their business/property even slightly better than they have. If they had we would not even be having this conversation !
It was stated over and over during the hearings and elsewhere that Ridgewood residents represent but a drop in the bucket of Valley patients. Therefore, even if we all boycotted the place it would hardly touch them.