Legal Opinion
Metropolitan Hospital v. Thornburgh
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided June 11, 1987No. Civ. A. 86-7076PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
DITTER, District Judge.
In June, 1983, Metropolitan Hospital, an osteopathic hospital, applied to the Pennsylvania Department of Health (“DOH”) and the Health Systems Agency of Southeastern Pennsylvania, Inc. (“HSA”), a non-profit corporation created pursuant to federal law, for a certificate of need (“CON”) to provide cardiac catheterization and open heart surgical services. 42 U.S.C. § 300 l-l. 1 Approval of a CON application is governed exclusively by the criteria set forth in 35 Pa.Stat.Ann. § 448.707 (Purdon Supp.1986). The HSA processed Metropolitan’s application and…
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