Surgical Care Affiliates, LLC v. N.C. Department of Health & Human Services

STEPHENS, Judge.

Background

This case involves the proposed relocation of two specialty ambulatory operating rooms from Southern Eye Ophthalmic Surgery Center (“Southern Eye”) 1 to the WakeMed health care system’s Raleigh Campus, where the operating rooms would be used as “shared operating rooms” for inpatients and outpatients. WakeMed is a nonprofit corporation that owns and operates multiple health care facilities in the Triangle region of North Carolina. WakeMed purchased Southern Eye on 10 May 2012 with the intention of relocating its operating rooms to WakeMed Raleigh. Petitioners Surgical…