Opinion
No. 17-1317
01-09-2019
UNITYPOINT HEALTH CEDAR RAPIDS d/b/a St. Luke's Hospital, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. IOWA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH, State Health Facilities Council, Defendant-Appellee, and Mercy Hospital Cedar Rapids d/b/a Mercy Medical Center, Intervenor/Appellee.
Rebecca A. Brommel and Douglas E. Gross of Brown, Winick, Graves, Gross, Baskerville and Schoenebaum, PLC, Des Moines, for appellant. Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, and Tessa Register and Heather L. Adams, Assistant Attorneys General, for appellee. Edwin N. McIntosh and William J. Miller of Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Des Moines, for appellee intervenor.
DECISION WITHOUT PUBLISHED OPINION See Iowa R. App. P. 6.904
A hospital appeals from the district court's decision on judicial review affirming the State Health Facilities Council's decision to grant a certificate of need to another nearby hospital, thereby allowing that hospital to establish its own open-heart surgical program. AFFIRMED.