Good Hope Health System, L.L.C. v. N.C. Department of Health & Human Services

This appeal initially came before this Court over two and one- ■ half years ago on 14 September 2005. Good Hope Hospital System, *565L.L.C. (“GHHS”) appealed from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Facility Services’s (“Agency”) Final Decision denying GHHS’s 2003 Certificate of Need (“CON”) application. Good Hope Health Sys., L.L.C. v. N.C. Dep’t of Health & Human Servs., 175 N.C. App. 296, 623 S.E.2d 307 (2006). A divided panel of this Court dismissed GHHS’s appeal as moot based upon GHHS’s submission of its 2005 CON application. Id. The North Carolina…