Ace Home Health Care, LLC v. Gentiva Health Services Inc.

PITTMAN, Judge.

In these consolidated appeals, the Alabama State Health Planning and Development Agency (“SHPDA”) and ACE Home Health Care, LLC, appeal from a judgment entered by the Montgomery Circuit Court in two administrative appeals brought by Gentiva Health Services, Inc. (“Gentiva”), and Amedisys Home Health, Inc., of Alabama (“Amedisys”) in which the circuit court reversed the decision of SHPDA’s Certificate of Need Review Board (“CONRB”) granting authority, in the form of a Certificate of Need (“CON”), to ACE Home Health Care, LLC, to operate a home-health-care practice in Madison…