The State Health Planning Board has set Thursday, August 27th as the certificate of need closure hearing for Heights University Hospital, despite the fact that the healthcare facility shuttered back in March.
By John Heinis/Hudson County View
“Currently, this public hearing will proceed in-person only, without a virtual option. If a virtual option becomes available, a link and instructions will be linked on the Board’s
website,” the notice on the State Health Planning Board website says.
“The public hearing will take place on: Thursday, August 27, 2026 from 5-7 p.m. at
Hudson County Community College’s Culinary Institute Conference Center’s Banquet Room
located at 161 Newkirk Street, Jersey City.”
Comments will be limited to two minutes per person, with registration encouraged here. Written comments are also being accepted by the board through September 3rd via email to boards-councils@doh.nj.gov, with “Heights Public Comment” in the subject line.
Additionally, to submit comments by mail, please send them to the following address:
New Jersey Department of Health, 55 North Willow Street, 6th Floor, at P.O. Box 360.
The closure hearing was initially set for April 15th at Jersey City’s Dickinson High School, due to a successful last-minute court injunction by Hudson Regional Health, the hospital operator.
While the formal hearing was cancelled over a technicality since HUH withdrew their CN, local and state electeds held an impromptu town hall where residents expressed their frustrations over the closure, which many characterized as “illegal.”
In June, Hudson County Superior Court Assignment Judge Brian Katz vacated the temporary restraining order in the matter, before throwing out the entire case last month, as HCV first reported. though the Heights hospital land owner, Avery Eisenreich, has vowed to appeal.
