Division of Administrative Hearings, Florida
Filed: Feb. 09, 2004
Select Specialty Hospital-Marion, Inc.'s CON Application 9710, filed with the Agency for Health Care Administration, seeks establishment of a 44-bed Long Term Care Hospital (an "LTCH") in Polk County, AHCA Health Care Planning District 6. The Agency preliminarily denied the application. Select-Marion has challenged the denial and Kindred-Bay Area seeks intervention in the proceeding. The issues in this case are two: whether Kindred-Bay Area has proven it has standing to intervene in the proceeding and whether the application should be approved.The applicant for a Long Term Care Hospital did not prove the need on a district basis. In addition, its case is plagued by internal inconsistency.
