South Broward Hospital District v. Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services, Division of Administrative Hearings

At issue is whether an unsuccessful applicant for a certificate of need authorized under the provisions of Section 381.494, Florida Statutes (1979) has standing to contest the near simultaneous granting of a certificate to a competing applicant.

From reading the record it would appear that the two state agency action reports on the twin applications for a certificate of need for a C. T. whole body scanner were made within 18 days of each other. The first of these reports denied the respondent, Hollywood Medical Center’s application for such a scanner in part because there was “not a need for…