>To survive, medical companies in New Jersey are building new hospitals
The dazzling new hospital that will open here on Sunday looks more like a five-star resort than a medical center. It may also be the best hope for survival of its corporate parent, Capital Health, a nonprofit company that operates three health care facilities in New Jersey.
The $540 million hospital is set on a pastoral campus with a weeping fieldstone wall fountain, all private rooms, an Italian limestone staircase and amenities like a spa for cancer patients. It will replace Capital Health’s Mercer campus, a 19th-century medical center in nearby Trenton that has dingy, crowded waiting rooms and triaged gurneys lining the emergency department hallways. (Kaysen, The New York Times)
