Greenville Hospital Is Closing
Greenville Hospital. Photo Credit: Dan Beards. Original Photo here.
Another post that should have been from yesterday. The community hospital will be shut down after more than 100 years of service.
On a personal note, I’ve only been inside this small hospital once, when we took a family friend there after he collapsed during our basketball game in the summer of 2006. Unfortunately, he was not revived. RIP, Alberto “Toti” Balmaceda.
Greenville Hospital
Address : 1825 Kennedy Blvd. Jersey City, NJ 07305
Phone : (201) 547-6100
Status : CLOSING (April 23, 2008)
Full news if you read the rest…
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
BY ANGELA STEWART
Star-Ledger StaffState health officials yesterday gave Greenville Hospital in Jersey City permission to close its doors at the end of next month.
The century-old hospital will cease providing patient care on April 23, according to the certificate of need application approved by state Health Commissioner Heather Howard.
Officials of LibertyHealth System Inc., which owns the hospital, are promising an “orderly transition of medical services to other facilities.”
They say all the services once offered at Greenville will be available at the company’s flagship hospital, Jersey City Medical Center, which is located less than three miles away.
Mailings are planned to all households in the Greenville community listing transportation information and locations of area hospitals, as well as federally qualified health centers.
“We have done everything possible to protect these services,” said Joe Scott, president and CEO of LibertyHealth System. “In the state’s fiscal crisis, we will continue to do everything we can to preserve the quality health care we provide for the community.”
According to LibertyHealth officials, the 100-bed community hospital founded by German immigrants was losing about $4 million a year. Greenville will join five other acute care hospitals — PBI Regional Medical Center in Passaic, Union Hospital, Pascack Valley in Westwood, Barnert Hospital in Paterson and Saint James in Newark — that have closed in the past 18 months due to financial troubles.
Two more hospitals have also announced plans to close: Columbus Hospital in Newark and Muhlenberg Regional Medical Center in Plainfield.
Angela Stewart may be reached at astewart@starledger.com or (973) 392-4178.
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