CarePoint Health plans to open 9 satellite ER departments, including 1 near JCMC

The operator of three hospitals in Hudson County, NJ is planning to open nine satellite emergency departments, including two in the shadow of its main competitors. CarePoint operates Christ Hospital, Hoboken University Medical Center and Bayonne Medical Center in Hudson County.  In a 40-page presentation to the state, CarePoint officials cite "improved capacity and access" to emergency care, a reduction in cost to patients and an economic benefit to the communities where the satellite emergency departments would open.