SOooooo!!! The State is considering the reopening of Pascack Valley Hospital as part of the Hackensack University Medical Center as a smaller full service hospital. To date no decision has been officially made about MRMC.
I would hesitate to raise the "ethnic issue", but Bergen County is an affluent 85% Caucasian area, which has a Democratic Party organization which delivers the same magnitude of votes a s Union County.
What is the criteria that has led to this decision? Certainly that part pf the state has a real surplus of hospital beds. It is unlikely that a large medicaid and uninsured patient mix led to that hospital's financial problems.
If Muhlenberg is to continue in operation as a realistic downsized full service facility it must be divorced from Solaris, and either be affiliated with an other but not directly competitive area hospital.
If and when the appeal occurs perhaps Solaris will be forced to open its books or a non biased accounting, and the true sources of its overall operational deficits determined. I for one believe that will be eye opening.
It may be political heresy, but if there is a financial problem operating JFK that hospital should share in the downsizing.
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OldDoc, for a smart man, you need to read the article closer. The money to build a new hospital is coming from the hospital. Obviously, Hackensack has 60 million dollars to build. The state is more than happy to approve a hospital if it is "others peoples money". Solaris is out of money.
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