Public Health Trust of Miami-Dade County v. State

This is an appeal from a final decision of the Agency for Health Care Administra*113tion (“Agency”), which found that the Public Health Trust of Miami-Dade County, Florida (“Health Trust”), lacked standing to appeal the Agency’s preliminary award of a certificate of need (“CON”) to the Cleveland Clinic Florida Hospital (“Cleveland Clinic”), for a kidney transplant program. We affirm for the reasons which follow.1

In 1998, Cleveland Clinic applied for a CON to operate a kidney transplant program upon the completion of a 150-bed facility in Weston, Florida. In July 1998, the Agency issued its “State…