Division of Administrative Hearings, Florida
Filed: Apr. 13, 2015
Whether the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) should approve the application of Compassionate Care Hospice of the Gulf Coast, Inc. (Petitioner, the Applicant, or CCH), for Certificate of Need (CON) No. 10337 to provide hospice services in Sarasota County, Florida.Petitioner failed to prove "special circumstances" necessary for approval of its CON Application for a new hospice program in Service Area 8D, where there was a fixed need pool of zero.