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| | Former mayor sues boro
06/24/2008
Thomas Wanner, the former mayor of Westwood, has filed a lawsuit against the borough of Westwood, the current mayor and council, and the Westwood Planning Board.
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| | ER to reopen this fall
05/15/2008
Hackensack University Medical Center (HUMC) President John Ferguson put months of speculation to rest in two simple sentences Wednesday night. "We want to open up a full-service hospital," Ferguson said.
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| | Hospital sale gets go-ahead
05/07/2008
HUMC and Touro University College of Medicine closed their $45 million purchase of bankrupt Pascack Valley Hospital after hearing that the state attorney general had no objection to the sale and would not require a public hearing.
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| | Sale of hospital approved
03/26/2008
Despite objections, the $45 million sale of the bankrupt Pascack Valley Hospital (PVH) site to Hackensack University Medical Center (HUMC) and Touro University College of Medicine was approved by a federal court judge last week.
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| | Hospital sold for $45 million
03/05/2008
A joint bid of $45 million by Hackensack University Medical Center (HUMC) and Touro University College of Medicine prevailed at the bankruptcy hearing on Feb. 27.
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| | Ordinance paves way for medical school
02/27/2008
A week before the Feb. 27 auction of Pascack Valley Hospital, the borough took a step towards allowing a medical school to open at the site of the bankrupt hospital.
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| | Auction moved up to Feb. 27
02/12/2008
Days after a federal court judge delayed the auction of the bankrupt Pascack Valley Hospital (PVH) by one month, the auction date was again moved up a week to Feb. 27 to accommodate the time constraints of one bidder.
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| | Hospital auction delayed
02/06/2008
On Monday, a federal court judge ruled to postpone the auction of Pascack Valley Hospital and its assets until March 4, eliciting mixed reactions from bidders, creditors and Pascack Valley officials.
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| | From ER to ‘country doctors’
02/06/2008
Two former PVH emergency room physicians have embarked on a new medical venture: treating everything from sprained ankles to food poisoning in the comfort of a patient’s home.
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| | Non-profit hospice alternative plants its roots
01/30/2008
Hoping to provide alternative end-of-life care in the Pascack Valley , four former employees of a Pascack Valley Hospital affiliate have split from Care Alternatives and created Community Hospice of Bergen County.
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| | Mayors stress need for hospital
01/23/2008
With less than two weeks to go before the remnants of the former Pascack Valley Hospital are put up on the auction block, local governing bodies are making it clear that anything less than an acute care facility on the site will be unacceptable.
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| | Former PVH affiliate under new auspices
01/16/2008
End-of-life care in Pascack Valley will continue uninterrupted with the recent acquisition of Hospice at Bergen Community Health Care, formerly a PVH affiliate, by Care Alternatives.
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| | MICU comes home
01/09/2008
Welcome back, MICU. As of today, two Mobile Intensive Care Units licensed by Hackensack University Medical Center (HUMC) will once again be dispatched from Westwood.
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| | HUMC secures MICU
11/21/2007
Hackensack University Medical Center (HUMC) led the bidding at the bankruptcy auction for the license for the mobile intensive care unit (MICU) that had formerly operated out of Pascack Valley Hospital.
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 | Making the rounds: program lives on
11/13/2007
Each of the apartments in Hillsdale House is equipped with a buzzing doorbell. It makes things even more efficient for the already very efficient Owen Cassidy. BZZZZZT! “Meals on Wheels!”
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| | Valley to provide meals for Westwood House
10/31/2007
Just days before Pascack Valley Hospital pulls the plug on services to the seniors living in Westwood House, a solid contingency plan has come to fruition.
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| | Closing of PVH endangers tri-borough towns
10/24/2007
With the closing of Pascack Valley Hospital looming on the horizon, municipal officials have begun to raise the alarm that emergency paramedic and transport services stand to suffer, to the detriment of the community.
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| | Officials seek other options
10/24/2007
The banner hanging over Kinderkamack Road in Westwood sums up the outcry of community leaders, hospital employees, and Pascack Valley residents: “We Need a Hospital.”
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| | Senior services threatened
10/17/2007
The seniors living at Westwood House are scared. They are scared about going hungry, and they are scared about their friends dying if they do not get to a hospital in time.
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| | Efforts to save hospital underway
10/17/2007
When Pascack Valley Hospital announced its bankruptcy in September, it gave itself a maximum life expectancy of two and one half months. Local efforts and business inquiries of late, however, have given hope to a last-ditch resuscitation of the hospital.
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