Tidewater Psychiatric Institute, Inc. v. Buttery

Opinion

MOON, J.

We affirm the judgment of the Circuit Court of the City of Virginia Beach because we find that the Commissioner of Health did not abuse his discretion by denying Tidewater Psychiatric Institute standing as a party in the proceedings below.

On February 13, 1987, the First Hospital Corporation of Virginia Beach (FHCVB) submitted an application for a Certificate of Public Need (COPN) to the Virginia Commissioner of Public Health, Dr. C. M. G. Buttery. FHCVB sought to build a sixty bed psychiatric hospital in Virginia Beach. The commissioner’s staff read the application, submitted a…