Division of Administrative Hearings, Florida
Filed: Feb. 13, 2006
Whether the Certificate of Need (CON) applications filed by Baptist Medical Center of Clay, Inc. (Baptist Clay), St. Vincent's Medical Center, Inc. (SVMC), and Orange Park Medical Center, Inc. d/b/a Orange Park Medical Center (OPMC), for a new acute care hospital in Clay County, Agency for Health Care Administration (Agency or AHCA) acute care subdistrict 4-2, satisfy, on balance, the applicable statutory and rule review criteria sufficiently to warrant approval, and, if so, which of the three applications best meets the applicable statutory and rule review criteria for approval.On balance and in this comparative review hearing, St. Vincent`s Medical Center, Inc. proved that its proposed acute care hospital in Clay County should be approved over the other two applicants.