FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, October 21, 2025 Hudson Regional Has an Obligation to the Community, the Workers and the Courts 2025.10.14_Carepoint Placey LTR Nabulsi EMERSON—After weeks of Hudson Regional Health (HRH) pressuring policymakers to bail them out, the NJ Department
State regulators should hold HRH accountable to fulfil the promises they've made during the bankruptcy. Any funding must come with transparency, a plan and a requirement to fulfil the plan.
The NJ Department of Health has strongly reminded Management that they can not just shut down our hospital or close services in 30 days.
An official from the New Jersey Department of Health warned Hudson Regional Health that they can’t close Heights University Hospital in Jersey City overnight in a letter issued the same day they announced they would be cutting non-essential services...
“Christ Hospital is an essential part of Jersey City’s healthcare infrastructure that thousands of people rely on for medical care, especially those without the means to travel to other facilities,” he said in a statement.
In a Friday afternoon press release, the hospital’s new owner, Hudson Regional Health, announced that without substantial state aid, the 153-year-old hospital, recently renamed Heights University Hospital, would likely be shuttered.
Management has NO PLAN to fix its finances and STILL doesn't know who they're planning to lay off or what services they'll close at Heights Hospital.
Secaucus, N.J.-based Hudson Regional Health will suspend non-essential services at Heights University Hospital in Jersey City, N.J. should the state and other government entities not provide it “substantial financial support”...
Union leaders were presented with no plan for the future but were encouraged to tell the Department of Health and the Governor that they need money to keep Heights Hospital afloat.
On Friday (9/26), we met with HRH ... they now claim to be already out of solutions for our newly named "Heights Hospital."
Nominations for Local 5186 Officer positions were closed on July 28. In accordance with the HPAE election rules, all unopposed candidates shall be deemed elected.
Hundreds of workers saving lives in Jersey City and Bayonne are working on contracts that will expire in days.