Adams v. Department of Health

OPINION BY

Judge LEAVITT.

David Adams and Rose Frontino 1 (Residents) seek this Court’s appellate review of the Department of Health’s refusal to allow them to intervene in the Department’s consideration of a change in ownership of a chain of nursing homes, some of which are licensed by the Department. Residents lived in two different Pennsylvania nursing homes affected by the change in ownership. In support of their petitions to intervene, Residents asserted that they had an interest in the regulatory issue before the Department by virtue of the fact they were “customers” of two affected…