Platte County Medical Center, Inc. v. Missouri Health Facilities Review Committee

KENNEDY, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal by the Missouri Health Facilities Review Committee from a judgment declaring that Platte County Medical Center, Inc., was entitled to a Certificate of Need for an 80-bed hospital at Highway 1-29 and Barry Road in Platte County. The ground of the judgment was that the Review Committee had not issued a decision on Medical Center’s application therefor within 120 days from its filing, and that the Certificate of Need therefore issued as a matter of law. The statutory language which was held by the trial court to be controlling and to mandate the issuance of…