Harrison's Sanitarium, Inc. v. Commonwealth, Department of Health

PALMORE, Judge.

These consolidated actions challenge the validity, as applied to the complaining parties, of certain administrative regulations of the Department of Health, the Department of Economic Security, and the Louisville and Jefferson County Board of Health which have the effect of increasing the minimum room size and space per bed required in nursing homes and rest homes, thereby reducing the number of resident patients the various plaintiff institutions are licensed to accommodate.

The trial court denied temporary injunc-tive relief and dismissed the actions on the grounds that (1)…