The issue is whether the Agency for Health Care Administration should approve Petitioner’s application for a Certificate of Need to establish a new hospice program in Service Area 8A.Agency should deny CON application for new hospice in service area 8A, Charlotte and Desoto counties. The existing hospice adequately serves the area, and applicant failed to prove any unmet need or other special circumstances as required by Agency rule.

The issue is whether Respondent properly determined that there is a numeric need for one additional hospice program in health planning Service Area 2B for the January 2003 planning horizon pursuant to a revised fixed need pool projection.Competent, substantial evidence indicates that there is a numeric need for one additional hospice program in service area 2B.

The issue is whether Petitioner’s application for a Certificate of Need to establish a new hospice program in Hospice Service Area 8B should be approved.The Agency should deny the Certificate of Need application for a new hospice in Service Area 8B, as the existing provider is adequately serving the area. Petitioner did not prove any unmet need or other "special circumstances" as required by agency rule.

The issues in this case are whether the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) should grant Hospice Integrated’s Certificate of Need (CON) Application No. 8406 to establish a hospice program in AHCA Service Area 7B, CON Application No. 9407 filed by Wuesthoff, both applications, or neither application.Challenge to hospice fixed need dismissed. Other criteria don't overcome fixed need pool of one. Comparison of two applications close but non-cancer and AIDS focus deciding factors.

The issues in this case are whether the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) should grant Hospice Integrated’s Certificate of Need (CON) Application No. 8406 to establish a hospice program in AHCA Service Area 7B, CON Application No. 9407 filed by Wuesthoff, both applications, or neither application.Challenge to hospice fixed need dismissed. Other criteria don`t overcome fixed need pool of one. Comparison of two applications close but non-cancer and AIDS focus deciding factors.

The issues in this case are whether the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) should grant Hospice Integrated’s Certificate of Need (CON) Application No. 8406 to establish a hospice program in AHCA Service Area 7B, CON Application No. 9407 filed by Wuesthoff, both applications, or neither application.Challenge to hospice fixed need dismissed. Other criteria don`t overcome fixed need pool of one. Comparison of two applications close but non-cancer and AIDS focus deciding factors.

The issues in this case are whether the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) should grant Hospice Integrated’s Certificate of Need (CON) Application No. 8406 to establish a hospice program in AHCA Service Area 7B, CON Application No. 9407 filed by Wuesthoff, both applications, or neither application.Challenge to hospice fixed need dismissed. Other criteria don`t overcome fixed need pool of one. Comparison of two applications close but non-cancer and AIDS focus deciding factors.

The issue in the case is whether the allegations of the Administrative Complaint filed by the Petitioner against the Respondent are correct and if so, what penalty should be imposed.Respondent`s building plans are ambiguous and unclear, and fail to meet professional standard

The parties have agreed that the following issues are to be determined: Whether Section 246.215, Florida Statutes, requires Petitioners and similarly situated home health agencies to first obtain a license or authorization from the State Board of Independent Postsecondary Vocational, Technical, Trade, and Business Schools before offering a program of training. Whether Petitioner, Compassionate Care Health Services, Inc., and similarly situated home health agencies are exempt from the licensure requirement in Section 246.215, Florida Statutes, by application of the provision of Section 246.201, Florida Statutes, which states: ny school or business, regulated by the state or approved, certified, or regulated by the Federal Aviation Administration is hereby expressly exempt from ss. 246.201-246.231. . . . Whether Petitioner, Compassionate Care Health Services, Inc., and similarly situated home health agencies are exempt from the licensure requirement in Section 246.215, Florida Statutes, because they are excluded from the definition of "school" in Section 246.203(1), Florida Statutes, by application of the following underlined language within that definition: [S]chools offering only examination preparation courses for which they do not award a diploma as defined in subsection (6) do not fall under the authority granted in ss. 246.201-246.231; nor does a nonprofit class provided and operated entirely by an employer, a group of employers in related business or industry, or a labor union solely for its employees or prospective employees or members.Home health agencies are not exempt from Section 246.215, pursuant to Section 246.201, Florida Statutes.