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The Time is Now
The Valley Hospital has met the healthcare needs of Ridgewood residents because of more than 50 years of periodic reinvestment.
Renewal is focused on modernization of existing facilities, not on adding more hospital beds. The emphasis is on critical new standards like the creation of single-patient rooms, larger operating rooms, and diagnostic facilities to accommodate new technology and evolving healthcare practices. Just like the important investments we make in our schools to preserve their effectiveness, healthcare facilities must evolve. Without doing so, Valley will experience a noticeable deterioration and likely become a hospital you would no longer choose for you and your family.
In short, the highly capable, award-winning hospital that Ridgewood has proudly called its own for more than half a century would, over time, no longer be capable of providing the level of care everyone expects of it. The time to renew is now.
Quality Patient Care and Service
The Valley Hospital now faces the question of how to preserve its ability to provide quality healthcare services in a time of rapid change. Implementing medical and surgical technology advancements of recent years requires more space, meaning larger operating rooms and diagnostic procedure areas.
Renewal also means more space for our patients. The single greatest square footage increase of the plan calls for single-patient rooms, which have become the state-mandated healthcare standard for new healthcare construction. (This standard was devised by the American Institute of Architects (AIA), and included the contributions of physicians, nurse, and other professionals). Currently, the average room in the Phillips Building is approximately 200 square feet and accommodates two patients. Rooms under Renewal will be approximately 275 square feet but will be dedicated to just one patient. Click through to view image.
Research indicates that single-patient rooms provide greater privacy, a reduced rate of hospital-acquired infections, fewer medication errors, fewer sleep disturbances and greater involvement of family members in a loved one’s recovery. Overall, patients cared for in single-patient rooms have far better clinical outcomes.
Why Renew?
If Valley had not been able to update itself at pivotal times in the past, we would not be the hospital we are today; Valley would have fallen dangerously behind. This is, again, one of those pivotal times. Our situation is analogous to education and our local schools. Improvements to facilities, technology and new standards in the schools is of the utmost importance, and is routinely supported by our community. The Valley Hospital is no different.
The residents of Ridgewood and the surrounding community deserve the highest level of care, access to advanced diagnostic and therapeutic technology and comfortable single-patient rooms in which to recuperate.
To ensure Valley’s future ability to care for you, your family, and all residents of Ridgewood, the Hospital must renew.
