The COPN record, sorted
Every New Jersey certificate of need decision the Department of Health has posted since 2016, with the State Health Planning Board vote and the staff recommendation on each full review, and each row linked to the state's own letter or report.
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Commissioner overruled the Board
Level II trauma center designation
The only application under the Department's August 17, 2017 call. The Board approved it unanimously, and the Commissioner denied it, as staff had recommended.
Each row is one CN number and review type at the New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH): the applicant and facility, the project, the county, the capital cost, the submitted, deemed complete and decision dates, the staff recommendation and State Health Planning Board vote on full reviews, the date the approval expires, and links to the letter and the status report. The busiest counties are Bergen, Middlesex, Essex and Morris.
The same file answers different questions depending on your job. Pick yours.
Advise a hospital, practice or developer client whether to file, oppose a competing request or contest a decision, and back the advice with precedent from the state's own decisions.
See what it doesBuild an application that holds up in staff review: the existing inventory, the comparable projects and the cost benchmarks.
See what it doesKnow what competitors are planning in your service area before it reaches public notice, and brief leadership on it.
See what it doesDecide where to add a scanner, a cath lab, operating rooms or beds, and judge the odds and the timeline before spending on an application.
See what it doesDiligence a provider, a deal or a site whose value depends on a certificate of need.
See what it doesThe five most recent decisions, with a few of the columns. Each CN number links to a Department document for that filing: the staff recommendation, the decision letter or the status report.
| CN number | Applicant | County | Decided | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09393-04 | West Jersey Hospital | Camden | Oct 16, 2026 | Approved |
| 2024-09358-19 | Sparta Senior Living LLC | Sussex | Oct 2, 2026 | Approved |
| 2025-11401-04 | Avalon Cherry Hill LLC | Camden | Sep 18, 2026 | Approved |
| 2025-12405-02 | Montvale OpCo, LLC | Bergen | Sep 18, 2026 | Approved |
| 2024-10361-07 | Clara Maass Medical Center | Essex | Sep 11, 2026 | Approved |
The 10-row sample has every column.
The file covers 370 rows: 274 applications decided by a posted letter or still under full review (217 expedited reviews and 57 full reviews, the 29 applications in the 2017 psychiatric bed call among them) and 96 filings that appear only on the Department's 2016 to 2020 lists of applications filed. Expedited decisions run from 2017 to October 2026 and full review decisions from 2016 to January 2026. New Jersey stopped posting its list of filings in April 2020, so for later years the file holds what the Department decided and posted, not every application filed. Withdrawn, pending and unposted applications from after April 2020 are not in it.
How the New Jersey file is built · Finding New Jersey filings
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