Northern Kentucky Emergency Medical Services, Inc. v. Christ Hospital Corp.

OPINION

LESTER, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment supported by an opinion reversing a decision of the Commission for Health Economics Control in Kentucky which denied an application of appellee, Christ Hospital Corporation, to establish an ambulance service in the nine Northern Kentucky counties.

From 1988 through 1990 appellee, Christ Hospital of Cincinnati, operated an ambulance service in a number of Northern Kentucky counties. It offered three levels of service, namely, basic, intermediate and advanced, the last of which was a sophisticated type of operation in that such a…