Charter Medical-Jacksonville, Inc. v. State, Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services

SMITH, Judge.

We reverse the final order of the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services (Department) dismissing for lack of standing the petition for formal administrative hearing filed by Charter Medical-Jacksonville, Inc. (Charter). Charter possesses a certificate of need (CON) to construct a short and long-term psychiatric hospital in Duval County and is seeking to contest the Department’s notice of intent to issue a CON to Glenbeigh-Jacksonville to construct a long-term substance abuse hospital in Duval County. Charter’s petition raises factual issues which are sufficient to…