From left: Montvale Post Acute and Healthcare Center recently broke ground on a new 185,878-square-foot facility at 100 Summit Ave. in Montvale, where it welcomed dignitaries including Cole Touhey, district director for U.S. Rep. Josh Gottheimer; Marquis Health Consulting Services’ Jennifer Hertzog, vice president, and Barry Munk, CEO; Montvale Mayor Mike Ghassali; Marquis’ Michael Smith, division president; state Sen. Holly Schepisi; and Marquis’ Yehuda May, vice president. — Courtesy: Montvale Post Acute and Healthcare Center
By Joshua Burd
The operator of what will be a new skilled nursing facility in Montvale has broken ground on the project, where it’s bringing new life to the former site of a vacant office building.
Located at 100 Summit Ave., the 185,878-square-foot property will have roughly 180 beds along with a focus on hospitality and advanced care and services, according to Montvale Post Acute and Healthcare Center. Those features will occupy three floors with distinct care levels — including short-term rehabilitation, secure memory care and long-term residential care — connecting to an existing structure adapted to create a grand lobby with a “Main Street” feel, lounges, dining areas, therapy suites, resident amenities and operational spaces.
The independently owned and operated skilled nursing facility, which will have all private rooms, will soon take shape at the former Western Union headquarters site in a key corridor just east of the Garden State Parkway. Brick-based Marquis Health Consulting Services will provide administrative consulting, giving residents access to an evolving suite of clinician-led specialty care models, signature services and comfort features.
“Montvale Post Acute and Healthcare will check all the boxes for transformative skilled nursing at a time when the call for exceptional care and elevated environments is growing fast,” Marquis Division President Michael Smith said. “Simply put, skilled nursing care is not what it used to be. This center is poised to become a premier rehabilitation destination in a region where private rooms are scarce and specialized clinical care is in high demand.”
The operator recently welcomed state and local dignitaries, health care colleagues and leadership from Marquis to break ground on the project.
“We are excited and grateful for the quality care, expanded capacity and good-paying jobs Montvale Post Acute and Healthcare Center, supported by Marquis Health Consulting Services, will bring to New Jersey,” said Andy Aronson, CEO and president of the Health Care Association of New Jersey. “By 2030, for the first time in our state’s history, New Jersey will have more older adults than children. Campuses like Montvale and other high-quality providers will be essential to meeting that growing need.”
Marquis Health Consulting Services, which describes itself as a hands-on, third-generation family-owned company, supports 112 skilled nursing facilities and senior living communities along the Eastern Seaboard, according to a news release. The firm’s “Care, anew” philosophy supports its mission to help clients transform industry processes, mindsets and outcomes.
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