Gulf Coast Health Care, Inc. v. Agency for Health Care Administration

Gulf Coast Health Care, Inc. (Gulf Coast) petitions for review of nonfinal orders of a Department of Administrative Hearings (DOAH) hearing officer, and of the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA). We reviewed substantially similar orders in Cleveland Clinic Florida Hospital v. Agency for Health Care Administration, 679 So.2d 1237 (1996), in which we quashed the order of the hearing officer and reversed the order entered by AHCA As in Cleveland Clinic, we find it necessary to reverse the orders on appeal here for the same reasons stated in that case, although the eases are somewhat…