Tanner Medical Center, Inc. D/B/A Tanner Medical Center-Villa Rica v. Vest Newnan, LLC D/B/A Newnan Behavioral Hospital

Boggs, Judge.

In these consolidated appeals, the Georgia Department of Community Health (“DCH”) denied Vest Newnan, LLC d/b/a Newnan Behavioral Hospital (“Vest”) a Certificate of Need (“CON”) to establish an inpatient psychiatric hospital. The trial court reversed the decision of DCH and ordered it to grant the CON, and this court granted applications for discretionary review filed by DCH and the hospitals that opposed the CON. For the reasons explained below, we reverse the trial court’s judgment and affirm the decision of DCH in both cases.

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