Division of Administrative Hearings, Florida
Latest Update: Feb. 04, 1987
Petitioner, Mercy Hospital, Inc., contests the decision of the Respondent, Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, to deny its application for a certificate of need to convert 29 medical/surgical beds to 29 long-term substance abuse beds at its existing acute care hospital in Miami, Dade County, Florida.Applicant's failure to demonstrate meaningful average length of stay rendered bed need calculation unreliable