This year, The Valley Hospital will celebrate 75 years since its opening day, on August 8, 1951. To memorialize Valley’s history over the past seven decades, we are reflecting on the organization’s major milestones.
In this blog, we’ll highlight Valley’s continued growth and milestones from 2020 to now.
Be sure to check back each month as we continue to share the history of The Valley Hospital! To learn more about Valley’s growth in prior decades, browse our blog posts here.
Valley from 2020 to now
In 2020, Valley’s heroic staff responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, offering support and care to thousands of patients as wave after wave of the virus impacted our community. After the COVID-19 vaccine arrived, Valley’s newly established vaccine centers vaccinated more than 200,000 adults and children.
Valley also celebrated its topping out ceremony for The Valley Hospital in Paramus, New Jersey, in which the final structural steel beam was placed.
In 2021, Valley announced that the iconic mural, titled “The World,” created by Polish artist Stefan Knapp, which was proudly once displayed on the side of Alexander’s department store in Paramus, would be returning to its hometown. Panels from the mural would be displayed in different locations across the new hospital campus.
Valley Medical Group, in partnership with the Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital, opened its first general and specialty pediatrics practice in Montvale, New Jersey, in 2022. In 2026, a second location opened in Wayne, New Jersey.
The Valley Hospital also welcomed a record-breaking 4,000 babies in a single year in 2022.
In 2023, Valley Health System, in partnership with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, announced the establishment of Graduate Medical Education with two residency programs in internal medicine and obstetrics and gynecology. The first class of residents started in 2024. Since then, surgery was added as an additional residency in 2024, and in 2027, Valley will launch three new fellowship programs in cardiovascular disease; hematology and medical oncology; and hospice and palliative care medicine.
Robert Brenner, MD, MMM, FACHE, was announced as President of Valley Health System in 2024 and later Chief Executive Officer, replacing long-serving President and CEO Audrey Meyers, who retired.
On April 14, 2024, The Valley Hospital moved from Ridgewood to Paramus in a single day. Staff volunteered and celebrated as patients were moved and ribbon cuttings took place throughout the hospital to commemorate the opening of the new location.
Since then, Valley has continued to open new locations, offer more services, and serve the community with high-quality, compassionate care. We look forward to doing so in the decades to come.
From the past few years
Presidents: Donald Trump (2017 - 2021), Joe Biden (2021 - 2025), and Donald Trump (2025 - Now)
Cost of Milk: A gallon averages $4
Cost of Gas: Averages about $3.50
Historical Events: Since 2020, Kobe Bryant was killed in a helicopter crash along with his daughter and others (2020), the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, causing global shutdowns (2020), the killing of George Floyd sparked the Black Lives Matter Movement (2020), the January 6 U.S. Capital insurrection occurred (2021), ChatGPT was launched (2022), Roe v. Wade was overturned (2022), Russia invaded Ukraine (2022), Queen Elizabeth died (2022), the Titan Submersible disaster occurred (2023), the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed after being struck by a ship (2024), there was an attempted assassination of President Trump (2024), Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected as Pope Leo XIV (2025), the Louvre was robbed (2025), the Epstein files were released (2026), and the Artemis II was launched, the first flight of astronauts to the moon since 1972 (2026).
