National Healthcorp, L.P. v. Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services

SMITH, Judge.

National Healthcorp (National) appeals a final order of the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services (HRS) rejecting four of its certificate of need (CON) applications without review, because the project costs in the applications exceeded the project costs set forth in the respective letters of intent. We reverse.

National filed letters of intent to develop and operate nursing home facilities in Bay, Gadsden, Volusia and Lee Counties. The CON applications for these projects were required to be filed by June 1, 1988. Shortly before, on May 25, 1988, an HRS employee wrote a…