Home Health Services, Inc. v. South Carolina Department of Health & Environmental Control

Goolsby, Judge;

Home Health Services, Inc. brought this action seeking judicial review of the decision by the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) to grant Roper Hospital a certificate of need to operate a home health service agency. The trial court granted DHEC’s motion to dismiss the action pursuant to Rule 12(b)(1) of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure. Home Health Services appeals. The question on appeal is whether Home Health Services, which never became a party to the administrative proceédings conducted by DHEC, has standing to seek judicial…