The state Attorney General's Office cleared the way for the deal to close.
Attorney General Anne Milgram said she had no objection to the $45 million purchase by Hackensack University Medical Center and Touro University College of Medicine.
She ruled that no public hearing or review was needed under a special state law governing the sale of hospitals, since the hospital was closed when the sale took place.
The 280-bed hospital was $80 million in debt when it closed in November. Since then, ambulances from the Pascack Valley and Northern Valley have rushed patients elsewhere, and doctors have admitted their patients to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, Hackensack or Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck.
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