Memorial Healthcare Group, Inc. v. State, Agency for Health Care Administration

Appellant seeks review of a final order dismissing for lack of standing Appellant’s petition challenging Appellee Agency for Health Care Administration AHCA’s approval of a certificate of need (CON) application filed by Appellee St. Vincent’s. We reverse.

A brief synopsis of the facts is as follows. St. Luke’s filed CON 9483 seeking to relocate 214 of its acute-care beds to a replacement hospital on the campus of the Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, and to delicense 75 beds, including 10 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) beds. This CON was conditioned on the approval of two CONs filed by St.…