Care Like No Other is Coming to Paramus

Frequently Asked Questions

• What is the plan for the current Ridgewood campus?

  Valley will maintain a vibrant campus in Ridgewood that will be dedicated to a broad range of healthcare services. Those services will include an urgent care center, and laboratory, radiology and endoscopy services. Moving the inpatient services to Paramus also provides Valley with an opportunity to consolidate existing ambulatory and outpatient services, as well as health system business functions.

• Why does Valley need to build a new hospital?

  Care delivery models and technologies are constantly evolving. Valley needs a more modern facility to preserve its ability to meet the future healthcare needs of our community. The new hospital will be designed to accommodate new care models, with the flexibility to change over time. In addition, the new hospital will enable Valley to accommodate new medical technologies and adopt the new national standard of single-patient rooms.

• Why did Valley select this location to build its new hospital?

  As Valley considered all its options for how to best meet the long-term healthcare needs of the northern New Jersey community, it became apparent that building the new facility in Paramus is the best way to accomplish this goal.

  Valley has maintained a strong relationship with the Paramus community over the years, including supporting community-outreach programs that improve the lives of residents throughout the borough. Paramus has also been a welcoming home for The Robert and Audrey Luckow Pavilion, Valley’s same-day surgery and comprehensive cancer care center.

  We were pleased to assemble an appropriate location that is so close to the location that Valley has called home for so many years, as it will allow us to continue to serve the residents of Ridgewood and surrounding communities.

  The site has numerous advantages, including its convenient location across the street from the Luckow Pavilion, and is just 2.5 miles from Valley’s Ridgewood campus.

• How will the project be funded?

  The new facility will cost an estimated $800 million and will be funded through the issuance of bonds, hospital equity, and philanthropic contributions. Valley is in a strong position to finance the new facility as it currently has no debt and for the last decade has been saving for the development of this new and exciting project.

• What will be done to mitigate any impact from construction activity?

  As Valley has done in the past with all of its building projects in both Ridgewood and Paramus, all construction activity will comply with all appropriate regulations (such as permissible construction hours) and will be carefully coordinated with the Borough of Paramus to mitigate any impact to the sites surrounding construction. 

• How will the campus be accessed?

  An important advantage of the new site is that the hospital can be accessed from many roads, including Route 17 North and South, From Road, A&S Drive, East Ridgewood Avenue, Park Place (off Rt. 17) and the Garden State Parkway. 

  Valley will be conducting traffic studies to ensure the new hospital has minimal impact on local roadways, and will work with local officials to improve the traffic flow in that area.

  The new hospital design will also incorporate a dedicated entrance and drop-off lane, similar to the concourse road of an airport, thus facilitating patient drop-off and visitor valet parking and further mitigating congestion on Winters Avenue.

• How will parking be accommodated?

  Both structured and surface parking areas will be provided.

• Can the neighborhood expect increased noise from emergency vehicles?

  Valley understands that as a good neighbor, it must do its part to maintain the character of the Paramus community and limit noise and other disruptions. As Valley has done for many years in Ridgewood, we will ask emergency vehicles to minimize the use of lights and sirens as they approach the new facility.