Health Care & Retirement Corp. of America v. Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services

OPINION

MICHAEL M. PARRISH, Hearing Officer.

RECOMMENDED ORDER

This is a certificate of need case in which the Petitioner is an applicant seeking to construct a new nursing home in Collier County, Florida. The Respondent proposed to deny the application. The Intervenor joins the Respondent in contending that the application should be denied.

Pursuant to notice, a formal hearing was conducted in this case before Michael M. Parrish, a duly designated Hearing Officer of the Division of Administrative Hearings, beginning on May 27, 1986, in Naples, Florida, and concluding on May 28, 1986, in…