From a press release sent out this morning:
Montclair Health System, LLC, a joint venture between LHP Hospital Group, Inc. (LHP) and HackensackUMC, today filed a Certificate of Need application with the NJ Department of Health and Senior Services Office of Certificate of Need and Healthcare Facility Licensure for a transfer of ownership of Mountainside Hospital in Montclair, New Jersey from its present owner, Merit Mountainside, LLC, a subsidiary of Merit Health Systems, LLC.
“We’re gratified to have found a new steward for Mountainside who shares our hospital-wide commitment to delivering exceptional health care within a culture of collaboration with the physicians and employees and community,” said Mountainside President and CEO John Fromhold. “LHP’s demonstrated track record of commitment and investment ensures Mountainside can continue building on the successes we have achieved with our great physician teams, employees and local community. Looking forward, we are confident that LHP, as manager and operator of Mountainside, together with its local partner HackensackUMC, will ensure this hospital is well-positioned for future growth.”
LHP CEO Dan Moen commented, “Mountainside is one of the premier hospitals in New Jersey with an outstanding record of providing quality patient care and safety. The hospital has served Montclair, Glen Ridge and surrounding communities for over 120 years. LHP is honored to enter into a joint venture to work with the medical staff, community board members and employees of this organization. We are very excited about the future and what Mountainside can bring to our organization and what we can share with Mountainside as we build on the momentum and success that the hospital already enjoys.”
“Our team of leading physicians has had a tremendous impact on Mountainside and we are proud of the significant accomplishments we’ve achieved together in only a short period,” said Dr. Konstantin Walmsley, Medical Staff President, Mountainside Hospital. “From new innovative capabilities like robotic surgery to new programs like hyperbaric oxygen therapy, we’ve strengthened Mountainside’s medical and community reputation. LHP is an ideal manager and operator, and HackensackUMC a national leader in quality and innovation. With their strong histories of collaborating with physicians and commitment to investment, they will help Mountainside continue to bring the latest medical programs, technology, and care to our local community.”
“It’s our honor to be asked to collaborate with the physicians, board members, staff and the community to ensure quality healthcare and service excellence continues in the Mountainside region,” said Robert C. Garrett, President and Chief Executive Officer of HackensackUMC. “Hackensack University Health Network looks forward to our partnership with LHP to help continue to strengthen healthcare in New Jersey.”
“The selection of this LHP – HackensackUMC joint venture for Mountainside ensures the continued success of this hospital and its close relationship with the Montclair and surrounding communities,” said Franklyn Jenifer, Mountainside Hospital Board Chairman. “We look forward to working with LHP and HackensackUMC to build on Mountainside’s legacy of excellent care for our community.”
Mountainside Hospital is presently owned by Merit Mountainside, LLC, a subsidiary of Merit Health Systems, LLC, a leading private hospital management company.
Segregation and diversity aside, law enforcement provides for the removal of antisocial behavior, which is the loci or focus of the cross-section that is created in the newly populated statistics. The population harbors and has been known to harbor outliers, averages, and percentage groups representing people with a historical tendency for antisocial behavior. The population is effected by the price level and behaviors historically associated the resultant population adjustments for behavior and wage variables. It cannot be said that antisocial behavior will cease to exist in any market segment, or population due to the fact that intelligence and past bias have placed certain people into a schedule of assistance payments in the form social security, pension/401k, or investment. When payments reach an inflection point within the distribution of scheduled payments we have what is called a central moment; the central moment is observed at many intervals throughout the populations distribution. What politics does is to create the perception that these dynamics are unobservable and that chaos is useful in placating the behavioral assumptions and motivations of all people included within the population who wish to address net cash balances at that moment. The populations instability will never be addressed because of the lack of intelligence despite social affiliations, and income disparity present due to the aforementioned continuation of assistance payments created by bias. The averages and group percentages don’t represent the outliers who are well established and well able to produce cash or liquidity when political sides are drawn. There often isn’t anything to argue when the mathematical/sociological approach to understanding behavior is always observed when we begin to interact with representatives among the population. What is often useful to people who deal with parameters and boundary problems is the explicit construct of an equation utilizing all coefficients or variables properly. You may recall y=mx+b, so keep in mind that exponential growth is constant(incarceration expense, living expense, democracy) so essentially we must observe y=X^2 and that xt = x0(1 + r)t is the best way of growing xt(at time measured) at x0(random time), x has to increase for many reasons. It just has to be taught to everyone that people must coincide with x(income level) at any given time, and we must all strive to put that individual closer to xt=1. Which reminds me of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, but I digress because at the moment I satisfy the solution or proof to the conjecture I will need a benefactor to set aside some disposable income because 1 million dollars is nonequivalent to the function I wish to describe within the context of investment analysis and research for x’s and intervals. It has been shown, and reliably proven that the acceptance and understanding of this fundamental approach has solved for the 2008 stock market crash in advance, and the 2011 banking crash in advance, I should know I wrote the research papers in college. I’m also unemployed because people who do not wish to argue about their cash balance randomly are running on borrowed dollars and have not produced an adequate amount of intelligence or money to offset the percentage group wage discrepancy they belong to. Which is why politics and money go hand in hand, a simple group association can put you at a higher x without having been able to actually earn, raise, or warn people of the real x factor that they deserve in advance.
LOL wrong board, I accidentally selected the wrong comment to respond to; The Affordable Housing Debate Continues…
I’m currently being sued by a doctor for treatment at Mountainside who didn’t fill out the insurance forms correctly and as such didn’t get paid. His office is hidden: there was no way to contact them. The practice had NO presence on the internet. And the collections agency he turned it over to refused to even discuss it with me. And now the doc is suing me.
I would recommend avoiding Mountainside Hospital in all but life and death situations.
Hospitals are notorious for overbilling, erroneous billing to their advantage, strong-arming tactics to collect on money they’ve erroneously billed for, etc.. They’re almost as bad as health insurance companies. At least as a for-profit, Mountainside pays back something to the community.
As for life and death situations, when my daughter was born, our pediatrician told us if she were to become really sick, as opposed to a broken bone, we should go to Beth Israel or University in Newark. I believe that’s still true. It certainly didn’t wind up on the list of NJ’s best hospitals. Being “Well positioned for future growth” has NOTHING to do with delivering good health care. Dane, you should either contact your insurance agent to help you or get a lawyer yourself.