Brookwood-Jackson County Convalescent Center v. Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services

Brookwood-Jackson County Convalescent Center and Brookwood-Walton County Convalescent Center appeal the denial of certificate of need (CON) applications. They assert that there is no competent, substantial evidence that they could not license and operate the facilities, that the policy of the Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services (HRS) which requires applicants for CONs for additions to facilities to be the license holder of the facilities is arbitrary, capricious, and contrary to past agency practice, and that HRS erroneously denied them a comparative review of their CON…