Premier Health Care Investments, LLC v. Uhs of Anchor, L.P

310 Ga. 32

FINAL COPY S19G1491. PREMIER HEALTH CARE INVESTMENTS, LLC v. UHS OF ANCHOR, L.P. WARREN, Justice. In 2005, the Georgia Department of Community Health (“the Department”) promulgated a rule, commonly known as the “Psychiatric Rule” (“the Rule”), that requires hospitals to obtain a Certificate of Need (“CON”) “prior to the establishment of a new or the expansion of an existing acute care adult psychiatric and/or substance abuse inpatient program,” and defines “expansion” as “the addition of beds to an existing CON-authorized or grandfathered psychiatric and/or substance abuse inpatient…