State Health Planning Agency v. Coastal Empire Rehabilitation Hospital

Benham, Justice.

The State Health Planning Agency (SHPA) received appellee’s request for a certificate of need to build a 49-bed rehabilitation hospital in Savannah, and appellant Memorial Medical Center’s application to expand its in-patient rehabilitation program by 15 beds and to build an out-patient rehabilitation center. When SHPA granted Memorial’s application and denied that of appellee, appellee appealed the decisions to the State Health Planning Review Board. There, appellee presented evidence challenging the constitutionality of portions of SHPA’s 1985 Comprehensive Inpatient…