Greenville Hospital

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Owners of Jersey City Medical Center announce plans to reopen Greenville Hospital as outpatient center
Published: Tuesday, July 31, 2012, 6:03 PM
Updated: Tuesday, July 31, 2012, 7:05 PM
By Charles Hack/The Jersey Journal

The owners of the Jersey City Medical Center announced today plans to reopen Greenville Hospital, which they closed in 2008, citing losses of $3 million a year. The facility at 1825 Kennedy Blvd. would be renovated and reopened by the end of next year as an outpatient medical center, LibertyHealth officials said.

"Many of our outpatient service lines are growing rapidly and we continue to add staff due to an increasing patient population," said Joseph Scott, president and CEO of LibertyHealth Systems, which operates and manages the Jersey City Medical Center. "This has created a need for additional space to serve our patients and staff safely and comfortably."

LibertyHealth Systems closed Greenville Hospital, which operated as an acute care facility, in 2008.

From 2009 to 2011 it was used as headquarters for the Jersey City Medical Center's Emergency Medical Service, until the EMS moved to the old Siperstein Paint building on Montgomery Street.

The planned facility will be used as an urgent care center with several specialty services, including a HIV treatment and prevention program, and programs for children with special needs, officials said.

Community Healthcare Associates, a medical development consultancy firm, will purchase and completely renovate the former Greenville Hospital, officials said.

CHA plans to develop 60 additional parking spaces. LibertyHealth will lease the building back from CHA and provide the medical services at the facility.

The renovation is expected to take from 12 to 18 months, officials said.

"Working with CHA we will be able to develop a beautiful building that will be a real asset to the community and meet the healthcare needs of the people of Greenville for many years to come," said LibertyHealth Systems spokesman Mark Rabson said.

Officials with the BelovED Charter School, which is scheduled to open in September, had been in discussions with LibertyHealth to open the school at the old hospital. But those plans changed after the charter school took over the Grand Street property of the now-defunct Schomberg Charter School, officials said.

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It's official: Greenville Hospital will close today
by The Jersey Journal
Wednesday April 23, 2008, 8:36 AM

Greenville Hospital will officially close today, ending a drawn-out battle over the future of the 100-bed facility.

Though doctors have not been admitting patients for months and more than half the staff have already gone, the hospital - which will temporarily have a triage center with ambulance service to other hospitals - will close its doors today.

Last week, a spokesman for LibertyHealth , which owns Greenville, said there were five patients and that they were to be moved; letters from the company were sent to all area residents informing them of other nearby hospitals as well as transportation options.

"The proposed state budget cuts in financial aid for hospitals threaten to further reduce the availability of health care services in our community," the letter reads. "LibertyHealth will work with local elected officials and community leaders to ensure adequate funding is available for our health care services."

LibertyHealth owns the Jersey City Medical Center and Meadowlands Hospital Medical Center in Secaucus.

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JJ:

GREENVILLE HOSP SHUTS APRIL 23
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
By KEN THORBOURNE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

The plug has been pulled on Greenville Hospital.

Despite a months-long campaign by elected officials and community activists to save the 100-bed facility, state Health and Senior Services Commissioner Heather Howard gave LibertyHealth System Inc., the hospital's owner, the go-ahead yesterday to shut the Jersey City facility in 30 days.

In a statement, LibertyHealth President and CEO Joseph L. Scott, said the hospital would cease operations on April 23.

In her letter to Scott, Howard cited several arguments LibertyHealth made last June when it filed its application to close the facility, including the fact the hospital is losing $3 million a year, and draining resources from the network's two other hospitals - the Jersey City Medical Center and Meadowlands Hospital Medical Center in Secaucus.

Jersey City Ward F Councilwoman Viola Richardson blasted state officials for displaying "blatant disregard for the lives of poor people."

In a statement, state Sen. Sandra B. Cunningham, said she is "disappointed" by the commissioner's decision.

"It's unfortunate that the people in the Greenville section of Jersey City will lose access to such a vital health care center which has served as a part of the community for more than 100 years," Cunningham said.

Making the case that patient care won't suffer, Howard stated there are six acute care hospitals in Hudson County besides Greenville, with the JCMC the closest at 2.8 miles and Bayonne Medical Center at 3.4 miles.

"It is clear that there are a sufficient number of unused beds at JCMC and Christ Hospital alone to easily absorb the relatively small inpatient census at Greenville Hospital," Howard noted.

Greenville, which employs about 250 people, is licensed for 100 beds, but staffs only 75. The hospital averages a daily census of 30 to 40 patients, officials said. In his statement, the LibertyHealth CEO assured the public that "all health care services available at Greenville Hospital are available at Jersey City Medical Center."

"In the state's fiscal crisis, we will continue to do everything we can to preserve the quality healthcare we provide for the community. LibertyHealth will work with local elected officials and community leaders to ensure adequate funding for the services we provide to all patients," Scott added.

Howard's decision came as little surprise to Jersey City officials, who were expecting the worst after the state Health Planning Board's recommended in February that the hospital be closed.

"We fought it all the way," Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy said yesterday. "I could see this coming. The numbers just were not there. The economics were not adding up and the state is just cutting more and more."

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Board's unanimous vote: Allow hosp to close
by Paul Koepp
Thursday February 07, 2008, 1:37 PM

The State Health Planning Board voted 6-0 this afternoon to recommend allowing LibertyHealth Systems to close Greenville Hospital after a three-hour hearing at the Holiday Inn in East Windsor.

The commissioner of the Department of Health and Senior Services, Heather Howard, has 120 days to act on the board's recommendation.

Jersey City Councilwoman Viola Richardson said the city is disappointed, but not surprised, by the decision after the three-hour session.

"It seems to me that for the most part the chairwoman had already decided what was going to
happen," said Richardson.

About 50 residents from the Greenville neighborhood attended the meeting.

LibertyHealth, the company that also owns the Jersey City Medical Center, says Greenville Hospital loses about $3 million a year. The hospital has 170 full- and part-time employees, plus an unspecified number of per diem employees.

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Healy: Hospital battle not over
Friday, December 28, 2007
By KEN THORBOURNE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

A group of elected officials, clergy, community leaders and hospital workers rallied yesterday outside Greenville Hospital in Jersey City to denounce hospital management for rejecting a $1.5 million infusion of cash from Jersey City. Keeping a commitment made by Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy at a state hearing on Nov. 1, the City Council voted earlier this month to give the hospital $1.5 million - either as a grant or outright gift.

This money was made available with the proviso that LibertyHealth Systems Inc., Greenville's parent company, would keep the hospital open for at least six months - time enough to find a buyer who would keep it a medical facility. But last week, LibertyHealth rejected the city's money and asked the state Health Planning Board, which granted the six-month postponement in November, to reconvene to grant the hospital permission to close.

"We've done everything we could to keep this facility open," said Jersey Mayor Jerramiah Healy, joined by roughly 25 other people. "This battle is not over," Healy added. "We are going to continue to work to see if we can get a solid healthcare provider to come in here and provide to the people of Greenville and Jersey City what they need, which is a hospital."

LibertyHealth officials refused to comment yesterday beyond the contents of the letter they delivered last week to city officials rejecting the money. In that letter, Brett Harwood, LibertyHealth's outgoing chairman, says LibertyHealth is turning down the money because the resolution passed by the city extends the six-month period to "June 2008" when six months from Nov. 1, the date of state hearing, is May 1. Beyond this technicality, he adds, "The strains on LibertyHealth have only worsened as Greenville Hospital's losses have mounted."

LibertyHealth claims Greenville Hospital loses roughly $3 million a year, and 85 percent of residents in the hospital's zip code already use other facilities, including the Jersey City Medical Center, which is also owned by LibertyHealth and is 2.8 miles away. State Department of Health and Senior Services spokesman Tom Slater said yesterday the department is trying to arrange a meeting of the State Health Planning Board in response to LibertyHealth's request.

Greenville Hospital workers said yesterday the state carried out a "spot-check investigation" at the hospital on Friday, responding to a complaint that staffing levels are so low that the hospital is now no longer safe for patients. According to the workers, the hospital passed the inspection. Slater confirmed state officials visited the hospital in response to an "anonymous complaint," but refused to elaborate further.

The hospital has 170 full-and part-time employees, plus an unspecified number of per diem employees, LibertyHealth spokesman John McKeegan said yesterday. Currently, 45 patients are hospitalized at the facility, he said. The hospital has 100 beds, but is staffed for 75.

© 2007  The Jersey Journal

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There's another rally to save Greenville Hospital today at 2 o'clock for those interested.

I don't have enough firsthand knowledge of the place to know what should be done here, but it sucks that decisions that could affect the health of a large number of people in southern JC and Bayonne can be justified because the hospital's owners are losing money.

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Ok so i live in the area where the hospital is and Honestly I wouldnt send a dying dog there.  The hospital is so understaffed not to mention that all the equipment is out dated.  Honestly i think it would be better to shut it down and possibly just rebuild a new one.  All the over spill can be transfered to the wilzig... which is an amazing hopsital .. might i add.

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NO THANK$!
Hosp nixes $1.5M from city; wants to shut doors
Saturday, December 22, 2007
By KEN THORBOURNE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

Greenville Hospital to Jersey City: Keep your money!

It may not be quite in the holiday spirit, but LibertyHealth Systems Inc., the owner of the financially ailing Greenville Hospital, told city officials it will not accept the $1.5 million the city made available this week to keep the hospital afloat another six months.

Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy promised the money at a Nov. 1 state hearing in Princeton on closing the hospital. At that meeting, the State Health Planning Board gave the city 90 days to come up with the money and, in turn, agreed to postpone a decision on closing the facility for "up to six months."

Yesterday, LibertyHealth once again requested a hearing before the board to ask permission to close the hospital and a spokesman for the state Department of Health and Senior Services, Tom Slater, said that request is under review.

City officials had been going back and forth on whether the money should be a loan or a gift and a City Council resolution passed this week gives the city the option of doing either. But a letter hand-delivered to Business Administrator Brian O'Reilly yesterday from Brett Harwood, the outgoing chairman of the LibertyHealth Board of Trustees, renders that discussion moot.

Harwood states that LibertyHealth is rejecting the money for technical and practical reasons. On the technical side, Harwood said, the council resolution says the $1.5 million would keep the hospital open until June 2008, not May 1, which is six months after Nov. 1. As to the more practical issues, the letter says: "The strains on LibertyHealth have only worsened as Greenville Hospital's losses have mounted. In light of this, I want to let you know that Liberty now intends to complete the regulatory process to obtain approval of the closure of Greenville Hospital."

LibertyHealth officials say the hospital loses nearly $4 million a year, that most of the area's residents already use other hospitals, and the creaky, 100-year-old facility duplicates services available at the Jersey City Medical Center, LibertyHealth's flagship hospital two miles away.

In a statement, Healy said he was "deeply disappointed" LibertyHealth would "categorically reject" the city's money. "The residents of Greenville are entitled to have access to emergency and medical services," Healy added. "We will continue to focus our efforts to find an alternative owner for Greenville and will explore our options with the state Department of Health."

Ward F Councilwoman Viola Richardson, who has fought to keep the hospital open, said LibertyHealth's latest action is "just another excuse to close Greenville." "I'm hoping the state will not allow this," she said. Slater, the state health department spokesman, had no comment on the hospital's rejection of the money.

© 2007  The Jersey Journal

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Vote set on money for Greenville Hospital
by Ken Thorbourne
Tuesday December 18, 2007, 11:14 AM

Jersey City is weighing whether to spend $1.5 million to help prop up Greenville Hospital, whose parent company plans to close it. The City Council tomorrow will vote on whether to appropriate the money. The measure is backed by Mayor Jerramiah Healy.

It seems likely the council will vote to authorize the funds, though at issue is whether the city will be paid back if the hospital is in fact sold. LibertyHealth Systems, the company that owns both Greenville and the Jersey City Medical Center, has said it will shut down Greenville because it is losing money.

At a hearing last month before the state Health Planning Board, Healy pledged the money as a temporary fix to keep the hospital running while a buyer is sought.

LibertyHealth has not yet recevied permission from the state to close the 100-bed facility.

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JJ wrap-up:


$1.5M SHOT IN ARM
'God has spoken' vs. 'false hope'

Friday, November 02, 2007
By KEN THORBOURNE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

An 11th hour pledge by Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy to invest $1.5 million of city money in financially failing Greenville Hospital has spared the 100-year-old facility from extinction - for now.

In light of Healy's surprise promise, the state Health Planning Board voted 6-0 yesterday to postpone for up to six months a vote on shutting the facility.

At a hearing in a hotel ballroom in Princeton, the board gave Healy and the city 90 days to come up with the money.

If the money isn't secured by then, LibertyHealth Systems Inc., the hospital's parent company, can ask the board to move ahead with the shutdown, board members said.

"Today's decision buys us extra time," Healy said after the vote. "Now we must work with the business administrator and the City Council to locate additional funds to try to keep Greenville Hospital open."

LibertyHealth President and CEO Steve Kirby said he could "live with" the board's decision, but it didn't represent a "long-term solution" for the problems confronting Greenville Hospital.

As of June 30, the hospital had a $3.7 million deficit, Kirby said.

"I don't know what the end game is," Kirby told the board. "I don't think false hope is the right way to go."

But for the 100 or so Jersey City residents and politicians who braved rush-hour traffic along Route 1 to attend the 9:30 a.m. meeting, any kind of hope is better than the alternative.

"I feel God has spoken," said Ward F Councilwoman Viola Richardson, who has led the drive to keep the hospital open. "He has given us another chance to put things together."

Sayed Elebyary, an asthma patient, addressed the board with an oxygen tank strapped across his shoulder. "We have good doctors, good nursing, good love (at Greenville Hospital)," Elebyary said. "Please, please, please, leave Greenville Hospital open."

The long-term prognosis for Greenville Hospital is still up in the air.

Three federally qualified health centers have made inquiries about the property, Kirby said. LibertyHealth, which also owns the Jersey City Medical Center and Meadowlands Hospital, is willing to lease the Kennedy Boulevard building to one of these centers, Kirby said.

An idea to establish a veterans clinic at the facility is moving slowly. Federal representatives said yesterday it has taken them six weeks just to schedule a meeting with VA brass.

Former Mayor Gerald McCann challenged Healy and the City Council to spend city money to save the hospital at a hearing on the hospital's fate two weeks ago. At the time, Healy said the most the city could spend was $250,000.

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Two quick hits from the JJ website:


Hearing today on closure of Greenville Hospital
by The Jersey Journal
Thursday November 01, 2007, 9:26 AM

The state Health Planning Board meets this morning to decide the fate of Greenville Hospital in Jersey City, which is slated to be shut down.

Residents were scheduled to board buses this morning to Princeton, where the hearing is being held, to voice their opinions.

More than 300 residents attended the first of the two required public hearings on the proposed hospital shutdown last month at New Jersey City University.

Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy, state Sen. Sandra Bolden Cunningham, and Downtown Councilman Steve Fulop are among the elected officials expected to attend the hearing.

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Healy pledges $1.5 million for Greenville Hosp
by Ken Thorbourne
Thursday November 01, 2007, 12:27 PM

Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy has committed $1.5 million in city funding to keep Greenville Hospital open for at least a year.

The pleadeg came today during a meeting of the state Health Planning Board, which is expected to vote whether to close the 100-bed hospital.

The chief of certificate of needs for the state Department of Health and Senior Services recommended to the panel that it order Greenville closed, in compliance with the request of its parent company, LibertyHealth Systems, which has said it is losing money on the hospital.

More than 100 people showed up at the hearing, in Princeton, and more than a dozen speakers urged the panel, which today has eight voting members present, not to shut down the hospital.

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JJ editorial on Greenville hospital:


Must be realistic on 'saving' hospital
Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Greenville Hospital in Jersey City is dying but no one wants to pull the plug.

This was evident Thursday evening when a public hearing was held, more about on how to save the hospital.

One of the primary suggestions is that Greenville could receive an infusion of funding if it provided a unit for Hudson County prisoners - or perhaps as a psychiatric hospital. Oddly, there was not much public support for converting part of the 100-bed facility into a substance abuse rehabilitation center, a service that could tap into available state funding.

These are dire times for hospitals. As in the case of the Bayonne Medical Center, another private facility that is in danger of closing, politicians are making credible efforts too close to termination of the facilities. In any case, many of the proposals seem like temporary solutions that would extend a hospital's life for another year before the inevitable.

Should the hospitals in Bayonne and Greenville close, it would leave a large area of South Hudson without emergency services. Bayonne can only hope that future development and a growing real estate market attracts investment in smaller surgical units and doctors who can make a mark in the city. Emergency services will have to be handled by the Jersey City Medical should the Peninsula City's emergency room close.

In Greenville, the reality is stark. Although disputed by some doctors, Greenville Hospital is expected to lose more than $3 million this year and is subsidized by Jersey City Medical Center by an additional $1 million. Millions are needed for infrastructure repair and new equipment.

The parent LibertyHealth System says market share data shows that 85 percent of Greenville residents do not go to Greenville Hospital when they need inpatient care. Also, most patients who go to the Greenville Hospital emergency room are looking for primary, not emergency care. Even more damning are LibertyHealth's claim that more Greenville residents use the Jersey City Medical Center emergency room than the one in Greenville.

The implication is that should Greenville close, little will change, except the end of a more than 100-year-old facility.

Now that they are involved, politicians should take a very cold, professional look at the situation at Greenville Hospital before a great deal of taxpayer money is used to prop it up.

© 2007  The Jersey Journal

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From the 10/13/2007 JC Reporter:


Saving Greenville Hospital
Residents, politicians speak out on possible closing

Ricardo Kaulessar
Reporter staff writer

If public support was all it took to save the 100-bed Greenville Hospital in southern Jersey City, then the facility would have a bright future.

Unfortunately, it also needs money, and a change in objective from the company that owns it.

Over 350 people packed a public hearing at New Jersey City University Thursday night, three days after more than 100 attended a "town hall" meeting at the Mary McLeod Bethune Center on Martin Luther King Drive to talk about the hospital's future.

Monday's meeting was part informational session, part pep talk to make people aware of the upcoming Thursday meeting (which many claim was under-publicized). Thursday's hearing was for the commissioners of the NJ Health Planning Board to gather public input on LibertyHealth's application to the state to close the hospital.

LibertyHealth Systems, the health care organization that operates the hospital, filed in June with the state for "a certificate of need" to eventually close Greenville as a regular hospital, claming they have lost $3 million in recent years.

In April, the company said they would like to close the hospital's emergency room in 12 to 18 months. The health organization has discussed ending all regular care in six to nine months.

Since then, a number of public officials, including City Councilwoman Viola Richardson, State Sen.-elect Sandra Cunningham, and Kabili Tayari, head of the Jersey City branch of the NAACP, have scheduled meetings with LibertyHealth officials and have worked with the community to fight the closing.

Read the full article here.

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I'm bumping this to the top again.

The more I learn, the more I get pissed off about this. If the hospital were actually losing as much money as they say and they had shown that there was little they could do to save the hospital after getting community input, I would completely understand. They being both Liberty Health and the State of NJ. The private owners and the State did nothing to alert the public to the problem until it appeared in the newspaper saying the hospital would be closing and it is a done deal.

I hate this, I mean I really hate that the State gets to decide the fate of JC residents without consulting with them. This is a pattern that I am starting to follow. They make decisions that deeply affect our school system even though they are handing the school system back to us without even consulting the JC BOE. Who better to have input than the very citizens and elected officials of JC? Unbelievable!

This is not a done deal, but if Greenville hospital closes and so does Bayonne, there won't be a hospital between JCMC and Staten Island. I only see this as further destabilizing an already poor section of town.

If you care and you can make it, you should come to the public forum. We need bodies or the State will think we don't care. Please consider doing this. If kept open this hospital will be improved probably with money from the state or county and stands a good chance of saving us, residents,  money in the long run.

Coming out to show your support only means that you would like the community to have a chance to figure out how to keep the hospital open in order to better serve the community. It does not mean supporting a hospital at any cost or in its current state.

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Damn Thebes. I looked up Greenville Hospital and it's very close to where I live. I really should attend that meeting on Monday rather than just sitting here sniping. (And while I'm there I can grill Sottolano about that 9 hole golf course on 440  .) Seriously though, I think I'll attend the meeting.

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County official proposes moving vets, prisoners, to Greenville Hosp
by Ken Thorbourne
Friday October 05, 2007, 3:41 PM

Prisoners and vets could keep Greenville Hospital open, according to a group of about 50 politicians, caregivers, and local residents, who rallied today to save the 90-year-old facility.

With a state hearing on the hospital's fate looming Thusday, those at the rally proposed that Hudson County jailbirds currently sent to Barnert Hospital in Paterson at a price to the county of $2.8 million a year could instead be sent to Greenville Hospital.

And Greenville Hospital would be more convenient for veterans who now have to travel to Essex County, organizers said.

"Jersey City is too large a city to lose these essential services at a vital location," said Ward F Councilwoman Viola Richardson, who spearheaded the rally. "The citizens in this community should not be forced to travel across the city to receive acute and emergency medical care."

John McKeegan, a spokesman for LibertyHealth, the parent company of Greenville Hospital, said today he was shocked to learn community leaders were recommending bringing prisoners into the neighborhood.

When LibertyHealth proposed saving the facility by turning it into a drug and alcohol clinic, community leaders objected on the grounds that the location -- across the street from a school and a block from a nursing home -- was inappropriate, he said.

Richardson said a "lock-down" facility at the hospital would be safe since security would be beefed up to keep tabs on the prisoners.

Hudson County Freeholder Bill O'Dea, who attended the rally and was credited with coming up with the idea, said the unit would have about 10 prisoners, the number who are taken to Barnet Hospital now.

Several elected officials attended the event, including Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy, Freeholder Jeff Dublin, various City Council members and Sandra Cunningham and L. Harvey Smith, Democratic nominees for state senator and assemblyman in the 31st District.

"If they (the organizers of yesterday's event) have ideas they want to share with us...we are more than willing to hear what ideas they have," McKeegan said."Our proposal to close Greenville for inpatient use is all built around how the the community is using the hospital. Right now 85 percent of the people in the community go elsewhere for their hospitalization."

LibertyHealth announced in May its intention to close the 100-bed facility, which they say loses $3 million a year.

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Thanks for posting this. 

[thebes]

I posted this after the fact because I attended the rally. There were many politicians there. Richardson spoke about the issues and questioned the reasons for closing down the Hospital as well as the obvious hardships this would cause. Mayor Healy also spoke and in addition to what Richardson said, he also spoke of several ways in which to keep the hospital going, including services for veterans and also a prisoner’s lock down ward.

Others who spoke were councilpersons Brennan, Spinello, and Sottolano. Also there were L. Harvey Smith, Cunningham, a representative for Sires, a representative for Doria. I’m probably missing quite a few people, but what do you expect when I am trying to listen and wrangle three kids at the same time.

There will be a Town Hall meeting on October 8, 2007 6p.m. at the Bethune Community Center. For more information call Councilwoman Viola Richardson (201) 547-5361.

They are asking you to remember that it is some of the poorest and most vulnerable that need your help. They really need your support. Please bring a friend or two in a show of solidarity. Not only is this a necessary service, there are ways in which it could save the city money in the long run.

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Rally planned for Greenville Hospital today
by The Jersey Journal
Friday October 05, 2007, 9:35 AM

A rally will be held today in front of Greenville Hospital to press for it to remain open.

Mayor Jerramiah Healy is expected to attend the noon event, which comes on the heels of the announcement that a public hearing is set on the parent company's decision to close the hospital.

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Public hearing set on Greenville Hosp closure
by Jason Fink
Wednesday October 03, 2007, 2:05 PM
A public hearing has been set on the proposed closure of Greenville Hospital in Jersey City, state officials announced today.

The hearing, at a meeting of the state Health Planning Board to consider the hospital's certificate of need application, will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. on Oct. 11 at New Jersey City University, 2039 Kennedy Boulevard, Hepburn Hall, Room 202.


LibertyHealth, the hospital's parent company, is seeking to shut down the 100-bed hospital as an acute care facility, citing a lack of patients and an effort to consolidate services as its flagship Jersey City Medical Center.

Several rallies have been held to support keeping the hospital open and several elected officials have asked the company to do more to keep it open.

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