Charter Hospital of Pasco Co. v. Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING

We grant the motions for rehearing, withdraw the opinion filed on January 31, 1990, and substitute the following:

Charter Hospital of Pasco County (Charter) has appealed a final administrative order dismissing for lack of standing its petitions to initiate formal administrative proceedings challenging the issuance of certificates of need to appellees HCA Health Services of Florida, Inc. (HCA) and PIA Psychiatric Hospitals, Inc. (PIA). We affirm.

In September 1988, HCA and PIA filed their certificate of need (CON) applications in the same batching cycle. Both applications…