St. Mary's Hospital v. State Health Planning & Development Agency

McGRAW, Chief Justice:

This is an appeal by St. Mary’s Hospital from the judgement of the Circuit Court of Kanawha County affirming the grant of a certificate of need to the intervenor-appel-lee, HCA Health Services of West Virginia, Inc. The circuit court’s decision followed a long and involved set of administrative rulings which resulted in the award of a certificate of need to Appellee HCA to construct and operate a freestanding sixty bed psychiatric hospital in Huntington, West Virginia. The appellant makes four assignments of error and seeks reversal of the decisions below. Because we…