CarePoint’s three Hudson County hospitals could close, warned Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop, who also sits on the hospital board.

Fulop, a Democrat running for governor, made his warning the same day the hospital system voted Achintya Moulick as the returning CEO, replacing Jawad Shah who stepped down a day earlier.

“I mean you could realistically see three hospitals close here and that would obviously impact hundreds of thousands of people here,” Fulop warned.

Hoboken councilwoman Tiffanie Fisher, who chairs the board of University Hospital in Hoboken and is a critic of Fulop, cast a skeptical eye on his warnings about the hospital. Owners of the properties on which the Hoboken, Bayonne and Jersey City facilities sit, contributed to political action committees with ties to Fulop.

“The negative is — at least for Hoboken Hospital and Christ Hospital — is that they’re sitting on really valuable real estate that has everyone drooling at the possibility of what uses there could be other than a hospital there,” said Fisher. “The owners of the properties don’t live in Hoboken, don’t live in Jersey City or Hudson County and, my view is that they see dollars on the potential redevelopments of these. And that’s special interests versus the public interest; that’s what it comes down to.”

Carepoint has sent layoff notices to staff, warning them of imminent bankruptcy. The operator says the state isn’t holding up its end of the charity care bargain, but audits have found poor management and budget incompetence.

Secaucus-baed Hudson Regional Hospital sent a letter to the CarePoint board, offering a bailout. State and Hudson County officials are huddling with local officials to try and figure out a solution.