Oregon Eye Associates v. State Health Planning & Development Agency

Oregon Eye Associates (OEA) seeks review of a final order of the State Health Planning and Development Agency (SHPDA) which denied OEA’s application for a certificate of need to build an ambulatory surgical center (ASC) in Eugene for the performance of outpatient eye surgery. Sacred Heart General Hospital (SHGH) intervened before the agency to oppose the application and is a respondent on review. We affirm SHPDA.

OEA is a partnership of ophthalmologic surgeons who presently perform eye surgery at SHGH, the great majority on an outpatient basis at the hospital’s short stay unit (SSU). OEA…