Suburban Medical Hospital, Inc. v. Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services

JORGENSON, Judge.

Suburban Medical Hospital, Inc. [Suburban], appeals from a final order of the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services denying its application for a Certificate of Need for an osteopathic hospital. We affirm.

Suburban applied to HRS for a Certificate of Need [CON] to convert its existing outpatient and ambulatory surgical center into a 36-bed acute care osteopathic hospital.1 After HRS denied the application, Suburban requested a formal administrative hearing.2 Following an exhaustive seven-day proceeding, the hearing officer issued a 76-page order recommending that…