SECAUCUS AND BEYOND — The state Department of Health and Senior Services released a report on Tuesday alleging that Meadowlands Hospital Medical Center in Secaucus, which was taken over by a for-profit company last year, skipped pre-admission testing for some patients undergoing anesthesia, did not have enough nurses on duty, and didn’t provide enough outpatient services for low-income kids, according to the Star-Ledger.
A spokesman for MHA, the group of investors that bought the hospital last year, called recent complaints from a nurses’ union and public interest group to the state “blatantly false” in newspaper reports, citing improvements they have made to staffing and other areas.
More on the report, and reactions from the hospital owners, will be published here and in this weekend’s Secaucus Reporter.
The complaints from the nurses’ union and public interest group were first noted in a Hudson Reporter article last weekend about the takeover of many local hospitals by for-profit corporations. To read that story — which has already drawn nearly 4,000 readers — click HERE.
State report contains allegations about Meadowlands Hospital in Secaucus; read related Reporter story about companies buying local hospitals
