April 6,2016
the staff of the Ridgewood
Ridgewood NJ, Valley is a business first and foremost. They do not pay taxes, do minimal charity work and pay their execs millions.
As any time they can be acquired/sold to a large hospital system, making the execs even more money.
This expansion is an attempt to polish their brand, nice hospital in upscale setting. Who wouldn’t want to go there for elective surgery? They compete against hospitals in Bergen, Pasaic, Rockland, Westchester and Dutchess counties. The judge sais that he was looking out for the needs of the region not just the neighbors.
While the “common good” is often sighted as the reason for the Valley Expansion ,but in 2012 The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood did all they could to block HackensackUMC at Pascack Valley from opening .
It’s important for young East Side parents to understand how important this is. Your kids are little but this project will still be going on when they are in middle school. Think about that for a minute. Valley does NOT care about you our your kids. Their lawsuit against the Village claims that Ridgewood “acted capriciously” but putting the needs of Valley’s immediate neighbors (including Travell School and BF Middle School) above the needs of the region. Said a different way, any detriment to Valley’s immediate neighbors will be outweighed by their self proclaimed benefits to the broader region.
Valley is not your friend.
None of what you said matters to someone laying on a hospital bed getting treatment.
The mother who’s 8 year old thinks Valley will be too big will be at the foot of his hospital bed screaming for the best treatment available.
“Polishing their brand” is exactly what a good part of Valley’s strategy is, at the expense of Ridgewood. By the way, you may want to take a look at this morning’s Bergen Record to see what another of Valley’s competitors has pulled off in Paterson( St. Joe’s). A Medical College across the street from their Medical center. Folks, neither St. Joe’s or Hackensack started out as Medical Centers. And, if you think this can’t happen in Ridgewwod you better think again.
Just get that grimacing mug off of this post.
Between Valley, Pfund, and Aronsohn, and the connections there are far too close for comfort, Ridgewood has been infested and overcome by a nasty virus for which there seems to be no vaccine. We can try on May 10 but the damage is done; guided by professional marketers and funded by construction unions and others, they craftily played the long game and won. Every possible committee, board, and commission (including a couple that hadn’t even existed before: Financial Advisory, etc.) as well as the council itself was carefully padded with acolytes, lackies, and the self-righteous and selfish who were promised various things to vote as instructed. They duly complied and what a mess we are in. In the history of Ridgewood there are various enemies of the state but Pfund and Aronsohn take the lead.
Oh, and P.S.: Who is our municipal judge, literally judging us, with a nice pension later, and who gave him that job? Correct: 1. David Pfund; 2. Paul Aronsohn. Neat, huh? How they must have laughed.
If they are “screaming for the best treatment available” they either have a minor problem or they are in the wrong hospital.
How will the expansion give them the best treatment? Valley is fine for simple tests, would you actually have bypass surgery or cancer treatmen there?
reminds me of that town in California that was broke but paying the town politicians millions in salary and perks…
Ridgewood is a lamb being taken to slaughter under this regime.
Follow the money….
RURIK B. HALABY is two for two. Way to go Rurik.
I SAY AT THIS TIME IN RIDGEWOOD, SCREW IT, LET THEM BUILD IT HIGH AND FAT, AND MAKE THEM PAY TAX’S. IF NOT WHEN THEY CALL US FOR ANY HELP SAY YEAH OK WHEN WE GET AROUND TO IT. TELL THEM TO CALL THE COUNTY FOR SERVICES.
I think the fat lady is singing as far as opposition to valley goes perhaps it time to practice damage control and tax and fee the hell out of the corporate monster