St. Dominic-Jackson Memorial Hospital v. Mississippi State Department of Health

KING, Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. This Court is asked to decide whether the Mississippi Department of Health (Department) erred by denying the eertificate-of-need (CON) application of St. Dominic-Jackson Memorial Hospital (St. Dominic). In its CON application, St. Dominic sought to relocate seventy-one general acute-care beds from its Jackson location to a new facility it planned to build in Madison County. The Department found that St. Dominic’s proposed project was actually a new hospital, not a relocation. Because St. Dominic did not meet the need criteria for a new hospital, the Department…