CarePoint Health has the state Department of Health’s support in its plan to maintain its three Hudson County hospitals as nonprofits, an indication that the state Health Planning Board will likely issue its official approval as well when it hears the matter Thursday.
In recommendation letters, the state said CarePoint Health’s plan may financially strengthen its hospitals and that denying it could burden the system since it already became a nonprofit without the state’s approval and would then have to revert back, nj.com reports.
The state Health Planning Board decision on CarePoint’s certificate of need applications Thursday morning represents a final major step in CarePoint’s journey to becoming a licensed nonprofit — named CarePoint Health System — that it announced in October 2021.
The healthcare company and owner of Christ Hospital in Jersey City, Hoboken University Medical Center and Bayonne Medical Center has characterized the transition as a means of expanding services and care quality at each of its locations and remaining a prominent player in Hudson County health care. Read more.
