Univ. of Ala. Hosp. v. Renal Stone Inst.

This case is an appeal by the University of Alabama Hospitals consolidated with an appeal by Springhill Hospitals, Inc., of a decision of the Circuit Court of Montgomery County construing the certificate of need provisions of Alabama's health planning statute, §§22-21-260 through -277, Code 1975 (Repl.Vol. 1984), so as to determine if either could obtain an exemption from the certificate of need requirements pursuant to recent federal legislation and corresponding provisions of the Code of Federal Regulations.

The State Health Planning Development Agency (SHPDA) (the agency which prescribes…