Surgical Center Faces Fine, Hospital Expansion in Top Englewood News

Englewood Hospital Seeks to Expand

Englewood Hospital and Medical Center is seeking approval to add three stories to its Angelica Berrie Center for Humanistic Care, according to a report on northjersey.com. 

The project aims to move cancer treatment programs into one building, the report said. The building's height would be increased from 30 feet to 87.33 feet, if approved. Another one-story expansion is also proposed for part of the building on Glenwood Road.

Federal labor officials have fined an Englewood surgical center they say failed to properly respond when an employee was stuck with a contaminated needle. 

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration hit CTO Management LLC, which does business as Health East Ambulatory Surgical Center, with $68,000 in fines for 10 serious violations, the agency announced Tuesday. 

Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg spoke in Teaneck Sunday to detail her support for a host of proposed gun regulations and faced opposition from gun rights advocates.

The Assembly advanced the 22 new gun control measures in February after the . The state Senate is set to take up the matter in late April.

Officials will hold a gun buyback in April at locations across Bergen County, including at an Englewood church, the sheriff's office announced Thursday. 

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