Hunterdon Medical Center—Expansion of NJ’s definition of hospital purpose

Represented Hunterdon Medical Center in the New Jersey Supreme Court against the Township of Readington, securing a holding that under the property tax exemption statute (NJSA 54:4-3.6), any medical or diagnostic service that a hospital patient may require, whether pre-admission, during a hospital stay, or post-admission, presumptively constitutes a core “hospital purpose” under the exemption statute, and that when an off-site facility provides such services, the test for tax exemption also requires consideration of the degree to which the off-site facility’s activities operationally are integrated and supervised by hospital personnel.