Helene Fuld Medical Center v. New Jersey Department of Health & Senior Services

The opinion was of the court was delivered by

LANDAU, J.AD.

In these consolidated appeals, Helene Fuld Medical Center (Fuld) challenges a final determination by the Department of Health and Senior Services (Department), to the extent that it granted a Certificate of Need (CN) authorizing conversion of five open psychiatric beds1 at respondent St. Francis Hospital (St. Francis), Trenton, to closed psychiatric beds servicing Mercer County, while allowing Fuld to convert only six of the eleven open beds it sought to be converted to closed status for Mercer County2.

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