Princeton Hospital update

The next step to an improved facility has been approved:

Princeton HealthCare System's proposed Plainsboro hospital received its final state health regulatory approval yesterday, which means that planning for the 269-bed acute-care facility now can focus entirely on obtaining the building and land-use go-ahead from Plainsboro.
The hospital, which Princeton HealthCare (PHCS) hopes to open in 2010 at Route 1 North and Plainsboro Road, would replace PHCS's 88-year-old University Medical Center at Princeton on Witherspoon Street in Princeton Borough.

Woo-hoo!

(I still get a lot of searches on Princeton Hospital. It's actually called "University Medical Center at Princeton" but rarely if ever do locals call it that.)

Princeton Hospital

The University Medical Center at Princeton has proposed moving out of Princeton proper and to Plainsboro, to the FMC property on Rt. 1. The plan is to break ground in 2007.

I sure hope they do it.

Yesterday I got to spend some time at the hospital's ER (everyone's fine now, thanks.) Every process was painfully slow- more so than I've ever seen at other ERs. The building is old, outdated and unnecessarily complicated. The parking sucks, what there is of it. There's no room to make any improvements or expand, both of which are sorely needed.

The population of Central New Jersey is expanding rapidly and the hospital has not been able to keep up with it. It should be moved.