Good Hope Health System, L.L.C. v. N.C. Department of Health & Human Services

STEELMAN, Judge.

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Facility Services (“Agency”) correctly treated appellant Good Hope Health System’s 2003 CON application for a Certificate of Need (“CON”) as one for a new institutional health service. The Agency did not err in determining that appellant had failed to meet its burden of showing compliance with the relevant statutory review criteria.

I. Factual Background

A. Good Hope Hospital’s 2001 CON

Good Hope Hospital (“GHH” and “Good Hope”) is licensed as an acute care hospital and had been in operation since 1921 in…