New Jersey Department of Health Commissioner Kaitlan Baston has definitively approved Secaucus, N.J.-based Hudson Regional Hospital’s certificate of need to become the permanent operator and owner of Bayonne (N.J.) Medical Center.
In December, Hudson Regional also received certificate-of-need approval from the health department’s health planning board for the hospital, which is part of Jersey City, N.J.-based Care Point Health.
CarePoint sought Chapter 11 protection Nov. 3. It comprises Bayonne Medical Center, Jersey City-based Christ Hospital and Hoboken (N.J.) University Medical Center. Hudson Regional has owned the Bayonne Medical Center property since July 2020.
In January, a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge approved CarePoint’s restructuring plan, which involves affiliating with Hudson Regional under management services organization Hudson Health System. The system will acquire CarePoint’s other two properties under a partnership agreement.
“In anticipation of this decision we have invested millions of dollars to improve [Bayonne Medical Center] and restore services,” Yan Moshe, chairman of Hudson Regional Hospital, said in a March 27 news release shared with Becker’s. “Bayonne residents can take a deep breath that their hospital has been saved.”
Hudson Regional plans to rebrand Bayonne Medical Center in a network that will include CarePoint’s other facilities. Some of the projects already underway at the hospital are a remodeled emergency department; enhancing and reopening of its cath lab; reviving its graduate medical education program and restoring its teaching hospital status; a new pharmacy; three additional operating rooms; a new laboratory; a new radiology department; and new technology.
