District Court of Appeal of Florida

Agency's denial of hospital operators' applications to move certain amounts of beds from their existing hospitals to a satellite hospital is affirmed where one operator failed to show that the agency failed to follow its own precedents in considering its application, and there was no error as to the standard of need applied to the operators for purposes of their Certificate of Need (CON) applications.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/13/2006
• Published 12/13/2006

Judges

• FARMER, J.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert A. Weiss and Karen A. Putnal of Parker Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs, LLP., Tallahassee, and Marjorie Gadarian Graham of Marjorie Gadarian Graham, P.A., Palm Beach Gardens, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• David R. Terry and Robert D. Newell of Newell & Terry, P.A., Tallahassee, for appellee Wellington Regional Medical Center, Inc., John Beranek, C. Gary Williams, and E. Dylan Rivers of Ausley & McMullen, Tallahassee, for appellee Delray Medical Center, Inc., Stephen A. Ecenia and J. Stephen Menton of Rutledge, Ecenia, Purnell & Hoffman, P.A., Tallahassee, for appellee Columbia/JFK Medical Center.