Medical Center Hospital v. Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services

Full title: MEDICAL CENTER HOSPITAL, APPELLANT, v. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND…

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District

Date published: Nov 17, 1986

505 So. 2d 3 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1986)

Opinion

Nos. BK-460, BL-50.

November 17, 1986.

Appeal from the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Service.

Phillip J. Jones of Wotitzky, Wotitzky, Wilkins, Frohlich Jones, Punta Gorda, for appellants in No. BK-460.

Chris H. Bentley of Fuller Johnson, P.A., Tallahassee, William E. Hoffmann, Jr. of King Spalding, Atlanta, Ga., for appellants in No. BL-50.

R.S. Power, of Dept. of Health and Rehabilitative Services, Tallahassee, F. Philip Blank and Reynold Meyer, Tallahassee, for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

This is a consolidated appeal of final orders denying appellants standing to intervene as parties in an administrative hearing to contest the issuance of a certificate of need (CON) to appellee. We find that appellants, licenced short-term psychiatric facilities, have standing to contest issuance of a CON for a long-term psychiatric facility. See Psychiatric Institutes of America, Inc. v. Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, 491 So.2d 1199 (Fla. 1st DCA 1986).

REVERSED.

ERVIN, WIGGINTON and BARFIELD, JJ., concur.