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Ridgewood NJ, when The Valley Hospital opens its doors in Paramus on April 14, a new chapter of care will begin at Valley Health System’s Ridgewood campus!
Valley’s campus on North Van Dien Avenue in Ridgewood will transform from an inpatient facility to a thriving outpatient healthcare destination, with a variety of services designed to offer convenient care for our community. The campus will be home to:
- Full-service outpatient laboratory services, including blood draws, routine lab work, specimen collection, and specialized testing such as glucose tolerance tests. The Valley Hospital in Paramus will not have an outpatient laboratory.
- Outpatient diagnostic imaging – X-ray, computed tomography (CT), ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and more
- Outpatient endoscopy services – colonoscopy, upper endoscopy, endoscopic ultrasound, and more
- Valley’s Wound, Ostomy and Continence Center, offering a wide range of treatments to bring comfort and healing to patients
- The Valley Breast Center, featuring mammography and full-service breast imaging
- Valley’s Recovery and Wellness Center, an inpatient unit for alcohol or substance abuse
- The Valley Hospital Community Care Clinic – high-quality care for patients who are uninsured or underinsured
In addition to patient services, the Ridgewood campus will serve as the home of Valley’s Graduate Medical Education programs in internal medicine and obstetrics and gynecology.
And with ample space to add other hospital-based services and departments as needed, Valley’s home in Ridgewood will continue to serve patients and community for years to come!
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Where’s all the bloggers spouting their nonsense about losing valley to Paramus?
no a$$es to kiss today
Not affordable housing for seniors. It will be an income center for the Valley Cabal and should be taxed like any other private property. No change in traffic (maybe more) and no change in demand on village services.
Excellr ! Blows away Pascack Valley Medical Center! Easily
Well, no ER, so there is that to complain about…a few minutes farther away for all you heart attack / stroke / etc patients…what could go wrong?
Can’t have it both ways. Hopefully if you have a heart attack, you’re taken in by ambulance and they’re taking care of you. Happy to see that enormous facility in Paramus and not on Linwood.
Can’t have it both ways. Hopefully if you have a heart attack, you’re taken in by ambulance and they’re taking care of you. Happy to see that enormous facility in Paramus and not on Linwood.
Tax the bastards.
Summary
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law legislation that restores property tax exemptions for nonprofit hospitals. However, the law requires New Jersey nonprofit hospitals to make a community service contribution.
The Upshot
The change stemmed from a 2015 New Jersey Tax Court decision, where the court found a tax-exempt nonprofit corporation liable for property taxes.
The new law addresses the 2015 decision by exempting nonprofit hospitals and satellite emergency care facilities from property tax.
Hospitals and satellite emergency care facilities that are exempt from property tax will be assessed a “community service contribution” to the municipality in which they are located.
The Bottom Line
The change begins with tax year 2021, so hospitals and health systems should put plans in place to comply.
On February 22, 2021, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law legislation that restores property tax exemptions for nonprofit hospitals. However, the law requires New Jersey nonprofit hospitals to make a community service contribution, beginning in tax year 2021, to municipalities in which the facilities operate.
Previously, the New Jersey Tax Court found Morristown Medical Center, a tax-exempt New Jersey nonprofit corporation, liable for property taxes for years 2006 through 2008. The court concluded that the hospital failed to meet the legal standard for a nonprofit, charitable organization under New Jersey law due to its “entangled infrastructure” of for-profit and nonprofit activities.
The new law addresses the 2015 Tax Court decision by exempting nonprofit hospitals and satellite emergency care facilities from property tax. However, any portion of the hospital or emergency care facility leased to a profit-making organization or used for purposes that are not exempt from taxation shall be subject to property tax.
Additionally, hospitals and satellite emergency care facilities that are exempt from property tax will be assessed a “community service contribution” to the municipality in which they are located.
The annual community service contribution for hospitals will be “$3 a day for each licensed bed at the hospital in the prior tax year.” And, for satellite emergency care facilities, “$300 for each day in the prior tax year.” The amount of the contributions will increase by 2% each year.
A hospital may be exempt from making annual contributions if, in the previous year, the hospital did not bill any patient for inpatient or outpatient professional or technical services rendered at the hospital and the hospital has provided community benefit over the preceding three years averaging at least 12% of the hospital’s total expenses. Additionally, facilities may offset required contributions by any amounts paid to municipalities pursuant to voluntary agreements.
Ballard Spahr attorneys represent hospitals and health systems, as well as other clients across the health care industry in New Jersey and throughout the nation. Our attorneys are available to assist clients with navigating this developing New Jersey law.
What else could they use it for. They already do some outpatient there. Just expand those services.
And inpatient substance abuse services are needed in Ridgewood. Gasp! Yes, Ridgewood needs this.
Have a Huge problem with no ER in the Ridgewood Village. Unacceptable 😷
Have a thriving community of young and senior citizens that require a venue for ER in their own town. Not well considered for this community. Please rethink this decision.
Taxes should be paid to the village for by definition it is not a hospital any longer
Yes it sucks they moved. Unacceptable? Reconsider? What planet are you on? Do you think RW is the only thriving (btw, RW is a lot of things, but thriving it is not) community with kids and seniors? The site was too small so they took their giant ball of money and built a far larger and more modern facility 10 minutes away. You act as if Valley was only there to serve RW. Go play pickleball and schmooze with the old RW librarians.
So has Valley paid the required amount all these years?
That place is a gold mine. They have so much property to expand. Directly across the street you have the closed Bed Bath and Beyond in addition to the also defunct Lord and Taylor.
The one massive problem they’ve not taken into consideration or simply neglected to address is the one lane road going in and out (Winters Avenue) which is going to bite them in the ass! Making the situation even more precarious, Paramus is building over 300 apartments right around the corner – so you can now look for total bedlam in the area. Traffic comes off 17 north and then makes the left onto Winters in order to get to Oradell Avenue.
Take one look at trying to get in and out of Hackensack Hospital to foresee the approaching nightmare. They also closed the one small road off Winters Avenue just before Oradell Animal Hospital that at least helped alleviate “some” of the congestion.
You nailed it….getting my popcorn ready.
How about helping families that don’t have health insurance because they can’t afford it. Valley hospital can afford it.
The traffic is going to be so much higher now with the outpatient services.
One way to keep the ER busy.