Division of Administrative Hearings, Florida
Filed: Mar. 24, 2016
This proceeding involves Certificate of Need (“CON”) Application No. 10400 filed by Petitioner, PruittHealth-Alachua County, LLC (“PruittHealth”), and CON Application No. 10397 filed by Alachua County HRC, LLC (“Alachua HRC”). The applicants each seek to establish a new community nursing home in District 3/subdistrict 3-2, Alachua County, Florida. PruittHealth is seeking a 94-bed nursing home, consistent with the projected bed need for that subdistrict; Alachua HRC seeks to aggregate nine additional beds from subdistrict 3-3 for a total of 103 beds. The nature of the controversy is whether, on balance, PruittHealth’s or Alachua HRC’s application best satisfies the applicable criteria for approval.On balance, Alachua HRC, LLC, best met the statutory review criteria, and its application for a certificate of need should be approved.