Arkansas Department of Human Services v. Hillsboro Manor Nursing Home, Inc.

Tom Glaze, Justice.

This is an appeal from the circuit court’s order reversing a decision by the Department of Human Services (DHS) refusing to issue appellee a license for an additional fifty-three nursing home beds. Appellee had sought these additional beds immediately after the General Assembly enacted Act 593 of 1987, a law that allowed nursing homes to expand their facilities without acquiring a certificate of need or permit of approval from the Health Services Agency, so long as the expansion cost less than $500,000. Appellee’s first request to the Office of Long Term Care (OLTC) was by…