CRYAN LEADING THE CHARGE TO GET TO THE BOTTOM

OF TRINITAS TRAUMA

Senator and others pursuing legal options in case of hospital denied Level 2 Trauma Center Designation by Murphy Administration

UNION –Union County Senator Joseph Cryan today announced that he and other concerned community leaders are pursuing legal remedy following the Murphy Administration’s decision to deny a Level 2 Trauma Designation to  Trinitas Regional Medical Center in Elizabeth because of opposition from long troubled University Hospital in Newark.

This determination by Governor Murphy’s Department of Health was made in spite of the fact that Trinitas met all of the necessary requirements to achieve the critical designation, was unanimously approved by the State  Health Planning Board and that University Hospital required a state monitor following quality, fiscal and administrative mismanagement.https://www.nj.com/healthfit/2018/08/an_f_in_safety_a_clash_with_union_and_an_ill-timed.html

Murphy’s Commissioner of Health, Shereef Elnahal, was named to be the new president and CEO of University Hospital and the interim CEO of that same hospital was just named by the Murphy Administration to be Elnahal’s successor as Health Commissioner. https://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/story/2019/05/01/elnahal-named-new-president-ceo-of-university-hospital-998405

https://www.nj.com/healthfit/2019/06/nurse-who-exposed-problems-at-states-only-public-hospital-will-be-njs-next-top-health-official-sources-say.html

 “This entire process has been beyond comprehension,” said Cryan.  “The multiple appearances of conflict at work here are simply overwhelming and the final decision to succumb to the opposition pressure from a hospital that was under state monitor for multiple quality, fiscal, and administrative violations at the expense of a hospital that did everything right can no longer be glossed over.  This entire process has been handled incorrectly and this issue is too important to the people in my district and the surrounding areas to simply turn a blind eye.  We have already begun pursuing every legal option at our disposal.  We should not let political pressures supersede community healthcare needs.”