Division of Administrative Hearings, Florida
Latest Update: Nov. 14, 1988
These proceedings result from the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services' ("DHRS") denial of the applications for certificate of need ("CON") to construct community nursing home beds in Hillsborough County submitted in the January, 1987, batching cycle by Forum Group, Inc., Sponsor of Retirement Living of Hillsborough County ("Forum"), Hillsborough Healthcare, Ltd., d/b/a Convalescent Nursing Center of Hillsborough County ("HHL"), Manor Care of Florida, Inc., d/b/a Manor Care of Hillsborough County ("Manor Care"), Cypress Total Care ("Cypress"), Palm Court Nursing Home ("Palm Court"), and other applicants who subsequently voluntarily dismissed their petitions before final hearing, and their respective challenges to the DHRS preliminary approval of: Florida Country Place, Ltd., ("FCP"), for 30 beds; THA/Oxford Senior Living Ventures, d/b/a Oxford Hillsborough Nursing Associates ("VHA/Oxford"), for 120 beds; and Health Care and Retirement Corporation of America ("HCR"), for 120 beds. VHA/Oxford voluntarily dismissed its application on the record during the first day of the final hearing.Error w/numeric bed need insubstantial. Considering all criteria (ie serious errors on denied apps), HRS properly granted CONs among competing parties.
