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HOME SWEET HOME, NO. 2 vs AGENCY FOR HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION, 09-000930 (2009)
Division of Administrative Hearings, Florida Filed:Miami, Florida Feb. 17, 2009 Number: 09-000930 Latest Update: Feb. 21, 2012

Conclusions Having reviewed the Notice of Intent to Deem Application Incomplete and Withdrawn from Further Review (hereinafter " NOIW") , and all other matters of record, the Agency for Health Care Administration finds and concludes as follows: The Agency has jurisdiction over the above-named Petitioner pursuant to Chapter 408, Part II, Florida Statutes, and the applicable authorizing status and administrative code provisions. The Agency issued the attached NOIW and Elections of Rights form to the Petitioner with respect to its change of ownership (hereinafter "CHOW") application. (Ex. A) The Election of Rights form advised of the right to an administrative hearing. The Petitioner received the NOIW and timely filed the Election of Rights form with the Agency Clerk. (Ex. B) On September 30, 2011, the Agency filed a motion to dismiss with the Agency Clerk, citing the mootness of the NOIW due to the revocation of the underlying assisted living facility license. (Ex. C) The Agency Clerk granted the motion and directed the entry of a final order. (Ex. D) Based upon the foregoing, it is ORDERED: 1. The Agency's NOIW is withdrawn as moot due to the revocation of the underlying license to operate the assisted living facility in question. ORDERED in Tallahassee, Florida, on this -1![ day of Eliza Agency for retary are Administration Filed February 21, 2012 1:56 PM Division of Administrative Hearings

Other Judicial Opinions A party that is adversely affected by this Final Order is entitled to seek judicial review which shall be instituted by filing one copy of a notice of appeal with the agency clerk of AHCA, and a second copy, along with filing fee as prescribed by law, with the District Court of Appeal in the appellate district where the agency maintains its headquarters or where a party resides. Review of proceedings shall be conducted in accordance with the Florida appellate rules. The notice of appeal must be filed within 30 days of rendition of the order to be reviewed. CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I HEREBY CERTIFY that a true and correct co is Final Order was served on the below- named persons/entities by the method designated on this ay of ---/ ,2012. 7 Richard Shoop, Agen Agency for Health Care Administration 2727 Mahan Drive, Mail Stop #3 Tallahassee, Florida 32308-5403 Telephone (850) 412-3630 Jan Mills Facilities Intake Unit Agency for Health Care Administration (Interoffice Mail) Shaddrick Haston, Unit Manager Assisted Living Facility Unit Agency for Health Care Administration (Interoffice Mail) Tria Lawton-Russell Office of the General Counsel Agency for Health Care Administration (Interoffice Mail) John D.C. Newton, II Administrative Law Judge Division of Administrative Hearings (Electronic Mail) Lawrence Bessser, Esquire Samek and Besser 1200 Brickell Avenue, No. 1950 Miami, Florida 33131 (U.S. Mail) 2

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AGENCY FOR HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION vs DONNA L. COOPER, D/B/A COOPER'S RETIREMENT HOME, 12-002633 (2012)
Division of Administrative Hearings, Florida Filed:Orlando, Florida Aug. 09, 2012 Number: 12-002633 Latest Update: Dec. 07, 2012

Conclusions any 212 Poe ap, AS 1g DOAH No. 12-2633 AHCA No. 2012003965 RENDITION NO.: AHCA-12- {tF 27S Ole DOAH No. 12-2865 AHCA No. 2012008077 License No. 11870 File No. 11967907 Provider Type: Assisted Living Facility DOAH No. 12-2866 AHCA No. 2012003189 THIS CAUSE came on for consideration before the Agency for Health Care Administration (“the Agency”), which finds and concludes as follows: 1 The applicant’s fictitious names on the settlement agreement are reversed. 1 Filed December 7, 2012 4:54 PM Division of Administrative Hearings 1. The Agency has jurisdiction over the above-named Provider pursuant to Chapter 408, Part II, Florida Statutes, and the applicable authorizing statutes and administrative code provisions. 2. The Agency issued the attached Administrative Complaint and Notices of Intent to Deny and Election of Rights forms to the Provider. (Composite Ex. 1) The Election of Rights form advised of the right to an administrative hearing. 3. The parties have since entered into the attached Settlement Agreement. (Ex. 2) 4. The Settlement Agreement is adopted and incorporated by reference into this Final Order. The parties shall comply with the terms of the Settlement Agreement. 5. The Provider’s renewal application for Cooper’s Retirement Home and initial application for Cooper’s Residential Home are withdrawn without prejudice to the Provider reapplying for such licensure in the future. The corresponding Notices of Intent to Deny these applications are moot and are thus withdrawn. 6. In accordance with Florida law, the expiration date of the existing license for Cooper’s Retirement Home is extended 30 days for the sole purpose of allowing the safe and orderly discharge of clients. At the conclusion of 30 days or upon the discontinuance of operations, whichever is first in time, the Petitioner shall immediately return the license certificate for the license which is the subject of this action to the appropriate licensure unit in Tallahassee, Florida. 7. The Provider shall pay the Agency $2,500.00. If full payment has been made, the cancelled check acts as receipt of payment and no further payment is required. If full payment has not been made, payment is due within 30 days of the Final Order. Overdue amounts are subject to statutory interest and may be referred to collections. A check made payable to the “Agency for Health Care Administration” and containing the AHCA ten-digit case number should be sent to: Office of Finance and Accounting Revenue Management Unit Agency for Health Care Administration 2727 Mahan Drive, MS 14 Tallahassee, Florida 32308 8. Any requests for an administrative hearing are withdrawn. The parties shall bear their own costs and attorney’s fees. This matter is closed. ORDERED in Tallahassee, Florida, on this (“4 day of Qeaertlee.. 52012.

Other Judicial Opinions A party that is adversely affected by this Final Order is entitled to seek judicial review which shall be instituted by filing one copy of a notice of appeal with the agency clerk of AHCA, and a second copy, along with filing fee as prescribed by law, with the District Court of Appeal in the appellate district where the agency maintains its headquarters or where a party resides. Review of proceedings shall be conducted in accordance with the Florida appellate rules. The notice of appeal must be filed within 30 days of rendition of the order to be reviewed. CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I HEREBY CERTIFY that a true and correct copy ofthis Final we was served on the below- named persons/entities by the method designated on this 6 day of , 2012. Richard Shoop, Agency Cler Agency for Health Care Administration 2727 Mahan Drive, Mail Stop #3 Tallahassee, Florida 32308-5403 Telephone (850) 412-3630 Jan Mills Shaddrick Haston, Unit Manager Facilities Intake Unit Assisted Living Unit Agency for Health Care Administration Agency for Health Care Administration (Electronic Mail) (Electronic Mail) Finance and Accounting Theresa DeCanio, Field Office Manager Revenue Management Unit Area 7 Agency for Health Care Administration Agency for Health Care Administration (Electronic Mail) (Electronic Mail) Katrina Derico-Harris Medicaid Accounts Receivable Agency for Health Care Administration (Electronic Mail) Edwin D. Selby, Senior Attorney Office of the General Counsel Agency for Health Care Administration (Electronic Mail) Shawn McCauley Medicaid Contract Management Agency for Health Care Administration Harvey M. Alper, Esquire Post Office Box 162967 Altamonte Springs, Florida 32716-2967 (U.S. Mail) | Electronic Mail) Lynne A. Quimby-Pennock Administrative Law Judge Division of Administrative Hearings (Electronic Mail) NOTICE OF FLORIDA LAW 408.804 License required; display.-- (1) It is unlawful to provide services that require licensure, or operate or maintain a provider that offers or provides services that require licensure, without first obtaining from the agency a license authorizing the provision of such services or the operation or maintenance of such provider. (2) A license must be displayed in a conspicuous place readily visible to clients who enter at the address that appears on the license and is valid only in the hands of the licensee to whom it is issued and may not be sold, assigned, or otherwise transferred, voluntarily or involuntarily. The license is valid only for the licensee, provider, and location for which the license is issued. 408.812 Unlicensed activity.-- (1) A person or entity may not offer or advertise services that require licensure as defined by this part, authorizing statutes, or applicable rules to the public without obtaining a valid license from the agency. A licenseholder may not advertise or hold out to the public that he or she holds a license for other than that for which he or she actually holds the license. (2) The operation or maintenance of an unlicensed provider or the performance of any services that require licensure without proper licensure is a violation of this part and authorizing statutes. Unlicensed activity constitutes harm that materially affects the health, safety, and welfare of clients. The agency or any state attorney may, in addition to other remedies provided in this part, bring an action for an injunction to restrain such violation, or to enjoin the future operation or maintenance of the unlicensed provider or the performance of any services in violation of this part and authorizing statutes, until compliance with this part, authorizing statutes, and agency rules has been demonstrated to the satisfaction of the agency. (3) It is unlawful for any person or entity to own, operate, or maintain an unlicensed provider. If after receiving notification from the agency, such person or entity fails to cease operation and apply for a license under this part and authorizing statutes, the person or entity shall be subject to penalties as prescribed by authorizing statutes and applicable rules. Each day of continued operation is a separate offense. (4) Any person or entity that fails to cease operation after agency notification may be fined $1,000 for each day of noncompliance. (5) When a controlling interest or licensee has an interest in more than one provider and fails to license a provider rendering services that require licensure, the agency may revoke all licenses and impose actions under s. 408.814 and a fine of $1,000 per day, unless otherwise specified by authorizing statutes, against each licensee until such time as the appropriate license is obtained for the unlicensed operation. (6) In addition to granting injunctive relief pursuant to subsection (2), if the agency determines that a person or entity is operating or maintaining a provider without obtaining a license and determines that a condition exists that poses a threat to the health, safety, or welfare of a client of the provider, the person or entity is subject to the same actions and fines imposed against a licensee as specified in this part, authorizing statutes, and agency rules. (7) Any person aware of the operation of an unlicensed provider must report that provider to the agency.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES vs ELENOR'S RETIREMENT HOME, D/B/A ELENOR'S RETIREMENT HOME, 90-007759 (1990)
Division of Administrative Hearings, Florida Filed:Miami, Florida Dec. 07, 1990 Number: 90-007759 Latest Update: May 06, 1991

The Issue Whether Respondent committed the offenses described in the Administrative Complaint issued by Petitioner? If so, what penalty should be imposed?

Findings Of Fact Elenor's Retirement Home (Home) is a licensed adult congregate living facility located in Miami, Florida. Eric Peavy is the owner of the Home. His wife is the Home's administrator. In November, 1989, OLC personnel visited the Home to conduct a survey to determine compliance with licensure requirements. Resident contracts on file were reviewed. Three of the contracts reviewed contained neither a refund policy of the type specified in Chapter 10A- 5, Florida Administrative Code, a bed hold policy, nor a statement as to whether the Home is affiliated with any religious organization. A previous survey conducted by OLC personnel had revealed that resident contracts on file at the Home lacked these provisions. The Peavys were so notified and directed to take corrective action. They failed to do so within the mandated time frame. This deficiency still existed as of the November, 1989, survey. During the November, 1989, survey, an examination was also conducted of the medication records maintained at the facility. The records were incomplete. They did not contain daily, up-to-date information regarding the administration of medication to three of the Home's residents. A previous survey conducted by OLC personnel had revealed that the Home did not have complete, up-to-date records concerning the daily administration of medication to all of its residents. The Peavys were so notified and directed to take corrective action. They failed to do so within the mandated time frame. This deficiency still existed as of the November, 1989, survey. During the November, 1989, survey, OLC personnel observed a resident who required greater care than the Home was able to provide. The resident was incapable of doing virtually anything for herself. Among other things, she needed to be administered medication. The Home, however, did not have the licensed staff to provide this service. The resident was totally incontinent. Because of her physical condition, the resident was unable to participate in any of the social activities at the Home. The same resident had been observed at the facility during an earlier survey conducted in June of that year. Although the matter of the inappropriateness of the resident's continued placement at the Home had been raised during the survey, the resident was still at the facility when OLC personnel returned to the Home in November. During the November, 1989, survey, the Home's fire drill records were inspected. There was no record of any fire drills being conducted at the facility in September or October of that year. This was not the first time that OLC personnel had found a lack of documentation concerning the conducting of monthly fire drills at the Home. Such a deficiency had been uncovered during an October, 1988, survey of the Home. The Peavys were made aware of this deficiency at that time. The Peavys were given written notice of the deficiencies found during the November, 1989, survey. OLC personnel revisited the Home in February, 1990, and discovered that all of the deficiencies found during the November, 1989, survey had been corrected.

Recommendation Based upon the foregoing Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law, it is hereby recommended that Petitioner enter a final order finding Respondent guilty of the violations alleged in the Administrative Complaint, imposing a civil penalty in the amount of $1,000 for these violations and giving the Home a reasonable amount of time within which to pay this penalty. RECOMMENDED in Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida, this 6th day of May, 1991. STUART M. LERNER Hearing Officer Division of Administrative Hearings The DeSoto Building 1230 Apalachee Parkway Tallahassee, Florida 32399-1550 (904) 488-9675 Filed with the Clerk of the Division of Administrative Hearings this 6th day of May, 1991.

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AGENCY FOR HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION vs MAGNOLIA LTC, INC., D/B/A MAGNOLIA MANOR, 04-004049 (2004)
Division of Administrative Hearings, Florida Filed:Green Cove Springs, Florida Nov. 08, 2004 Number: 04-004049 Latest Update: Dec. 25, 2024
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AGENCY FOR HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION vs DELTA HEALTH GROUP, INC., D/B/A BAYSIDE MANOR, 02-003858 (2002)
Division of Administrative Hearings, Florida Filed:Pensacola, Florida Oct. 02, 2002 Number: 02-003858 Latest Update: Nov. 19, 2003

The Issue Whether Respondent’s nursing home license should be disciplined, and whether Respondent’s nursing home license should be changed from a Standard license to a Conditional license.

Findings Of Fact Bayside Manor is a licensed nursing home located in Pensacola, Florida. On June 14, 2003, Resident No. 4 climbed out of her bed without assistance to go to the bathroom. She fell to the floor and sustained a bruise to her forehead and lacerations to her cheek and chin. Her Foley catheter was pulled out with the bulb still inflated. The fall occurred shortly after Resident No. 4 had finished eating. No staff was in her room when she climbed out of her bed. She was found on her side on the floor by staff. According to the June 14 Bayside’s Nurses' notes, Resident No. 4 stated, "Oh, I was going to the bathroom." In the hour prior to her fall, Resident No. 4 was seen at least three times by nursing assistants, which was more than appropriate monitoring for Resident No. 4. On June 20, 2002, AHCA conducted a survey of Bayside Manor’s facility. In its survey, AHCA found one alleged deficiency relating to Resident No. 4. The surveyor believed that Resident No. 4 should have been reassessed for falls by the facility and, based upon that reassessment, offered additional assistive devices and/or increased supervision. The surveyor also believed that the certified nursing assistant had left Resident No. 4 alone with the side rails to her bed down. The deficiency was cited under Tag F-324. Tag F-324 requires a facility to ensure that “[e]ach resident receives adequate supervision and assistance devices to prevent accidents.” The deficiency was classified as a Class II deficiency. On October 9, 2001, and January 14, 2002, Bayside Manor assessed Resident No. 4 as having a high risk for falls, scoring 9 on a scale where scores of 10 or higher constitute a high risk. In addition to the June 14, 2002, fall noted above, Resident No. 4 had recent falls on November 30, 2001, April 19, 2002, and May 12, 2002. Resident No. 4's diagnoses included end-stage congestive heart failure and cognitive impairment. She had periods of confusion, refused to call for assistance, and had poor safety awareness. Resident No. 4 had been referred to hospice for palliative care. Because hospice care is given when a resident is close to death, care focuses on comfort of the resident rather than aggressive care. Additionally, the resident frequently asked to be toileted even though she had a catheter inserted. She frequently attempted to toilet herself without staff assistance, which in the past had led to her falls. Often her desire to urinate did not coincide with her actual need to urinate. She was capable of feeding herself and did not require assistance with feeding. Bayside Manor addressed Resident No. 4’s high risk of falls by providing medication which eliminated bladder spasms that might increase her desire to urinate and medication to alleviate her anxiety over her desire to urinate. She was placed on the facility’s falling stars program which alerts staff to her high risk for falls and requires that staff check on her every hour. The usual standard for supervision in a nursing home is to check on residents every two hours. The facility also provided Resident No. 4 with a variety of devices to reduce her risk of falling or any injuries sustained from a fall. These devices included a lap buddy, a criss-cross belt, a roll belt while in bed, a low bed, and a body alarm. Some of the devices were discontinued because they were inappropriate for Resident No. 4. In December 2001, the roll belt was discontinued after Resident No. 4, while attempting to get out of bed, became entangled in the roll belt and strangled herself with it. On May 6, 2002, the low bed and fall mat were discontinued for Resident No. 4. The doctor ordered Resident No. 4 be placed in a bed with full side rails. The doctor discontinued the low bed because it could not be raised to a position that would help alleviate fluid build-up in Resident No. 4’s lungs caused by Resident No. 4’s congestive heart failure. Discontinuance of the low bed was also requested by hospice staff and the resident’s daughter to afford the resident more comfort in a raised bed. The fact that placement in a regular raised bed potentially could result in an increase in the seriousness of injury from a fall from that bed was obvious to any reasonable person. The May 5, 2002, nurses’ notes indicate that there was a discussion with Resident No. 4’s daughter about returning the resident to a high bed for comfort. On balance, the placement of Resident No. 4 in a regular raised bed was medically warranted, as well as reasonable. The placement in a regular bed with side rails was not noted directly in the care plan but was contained in the doctor’s orders and was well known by all the facility’s staff. There was no evidence that directly mentioned the regular bed in the formal care plan was required or that the failure to do so had any consequence to Resident No. 4’s care. Even a lack of documentation clearly would not constitute a Class II deficiency. Moreover, the bed with side rails was not ordered to protect or prevent falls by Resident No. 4. The facility does not consider a bed with side rails of any sort to be a device which assists in the prevention of falls. Indeed rails often cause falls or increase the injury from a fall. In this case, the rails were ordered so that the resident could more easily position herself in the bed to maintain a comfortable position. Again, the decision to place Resident No. 4 in a regular raised bed with side rails was reasonable. The focus is on comfort as opposed to aggressive care for hospice residents. The evidence did not demonstrate that Bayside Manor failed to adequately supervise or provide assistive devices to Resident No. 4. There was no evidence that reassessment would have shown Resident No. 4 to be at any higher risk for falls, since she was already rated as a high risk for falls. Nor did the evidence show that reassessment would have changed any of the care given to Resident No. 4 or changed the type bed in which she was most comfortable.

Recommendation Based on the foregoing Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law, it is RECOMMENDED that the Agency for Health Care Administration enter a final order restoring the Respondent’s licensure status to Standard and dismissing the Administrative Complaint. DONE AND ENTERED this 3rd day of June, 2003, in Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida. DIANE CLEAVINGER Administrative Law Judge Division of Administrative Hearings The DeSoto Building 1230 Apalachee Parkway Tallahassee, Florida 32399-3060 (850) 488-9675 SUNCOM 278-9675 Fax Filing (850) 921-6847 www.doah.state.fl.us Filed with the Clerk of the Division of Administrative Hearings this 3rd day of June, 2003. COPIES FURNISHED: Joanna Daniels, Esquire Agency for Health Care Administration 2727 Mahan Drive, Mail Stop 3 Tallahassee, Florida 32308 Donna H. Stinson, Esquire R. Davis Thomas, Jr., Esquire Broad & Cassel 215 South Monroe Street, Suite 400 Post Office Box 11300 Tallahassee, Florida 32302 Lealand McCharen, Agency Clerk Agency for Health Care Administration 2727 Mahan Drive, Mail Stop 3 Tallahassee, Florida 32308 Valda Clark Christian, General Counsel Agency for Health Care Administration 2727 Mahan Drive Fort Knox Building, Suite 3431 Tallahassee, Florida 32308

Florida Laws (5) 120.569120.57400.021400.022400.23
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NATIONAL HEALTH CORPORATION AND FMSC, INC. vs. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES, 85-003013 (1985)
Division of Administrative Hearings, Florida Number: 85-003013 Latest Update: Jan. 28, 1987

Findings Of Fact The parties present at the hearing stipulated to the following facts which are hereby entered as findings of fact: All letters of intent submitted by the applicants involved herein with the exception of FCC were timely filed on or before December 15, 1984 and the relating applications by these applicants were timely filed on or before January 15, 1985. As a result, these applications addressed a January, 1988 bed need planning horizon. All applications, as mentioned above, were deemed complete by DHRS and were reviewed under a January, 1988 bed need planning horizon. All applications as cited above, were preliminarily denied by DHRS based on a lack of need and notice of these denials were timely published in the Florida Administrative Weekly. All unsuccessful applicants herein thereafter timely filed petitions for formal administrative hearing to contest the denial of their applications. The application filed by FCC for CON number 2738, filed by the applicant in July, 1983, and addressing a July, 1986 bed need was initially denied by DHRS in November, 1983. FCC thereafter timely filed a petition for formal, administrative hearing contesting the denial of this application and on January 10, 1985, DHRS and FCC entered into a stipulated settlement in which DHRS agreed to grant CON Number 2738 to FCC. This CON was issued to FCC on January 19, 1985, for 91 community nursing home beds and on March 15, 1985, a Final Order was entered by DHRS confirming the grant off CON Number 2738 to FCC. FCC's original application under CON Number 2738 was for a 120 bed community nursing home to be located in Indian River County, Florida. DHRS's initial denial of FCC's application was based on a lack of bed need at the time. When DHRS entered into the stipulation with FCC reversing its position and granting a CON to FCC for 91 community nursing home beds, it did so on the basis of bed need figures utilizing statistics relating to the subsequent January, 1988 bed need planning horizon even though FCC's application did not pertain to that planning horizon. In fact the beds taken and awarded to FCC came from the fixed pool of beds that, under the DHRS rule in effect at the time, was reserved for applicants in the January, 1985 batching cycle with a planning horizon of January, 1988. Rule 10-5.11(21)(b), F.A.C., sets out the bed need rule methodology for determining projected need for new or additional community nursing home beds. Pursuant to this rule, need is projected three years into the future. The methodology provided in this rule is clear and reasonable. If this methodology is followed precisely as set forth in the rule and utilizing the DHRS statistics available to personnel in the health care professions, such as its semi-annual nursing home census report as well as the Florida population estimates and projections by DHRS district and county, a net bed need of 116 additional beds in Indian River County is established for the period January, 1988. This figure does not, however, include an award of 91 beds to FCC under CON Number 2738 by DHRS under the terms of its settlement and those 91 beds are included within the 116. The expert testifying for the applicants herein concluded that the award of the 91 beds to FCC outside its planning horizon was erroneous and improper and based on no calculation of bed need appropriate to the applicant's original July, 1986 planning horizon and it was so found. In this case, DHRS, by awarding beds to FCC from a subsequent planning horizon is implementing a bed need policy which establishes a "planning horizon" three years from the date the Petitioners' applications were filed but updating all available data to that existing as of the date of the final hearing. This would include July, 1986 population data, current licensed beds, current approved beds, and the latest occupancy rate. The procedure followed by DHRS here is, however, a DHRS policy interpretation rather than a literal interpretation of the rule and the DHRS expert was unable to establish or in any way justify DHRS' policy of updating all data to the date of hearing in contravention of the terms of its own rule. If the unjustified and unsubstantiated DHRS policy were accepted and utilized here, calculations would reflect a surplus of 70 nursing home beds in Indian River County for the January, 1988 planning horizon as opposed to the more reasonable and rational bed need of 116.

Recommendation Based on the foregoing Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law, it is, therefore: RECOMMENDED THAT Certificate of Need Number 2733, previously issued to Florida Convalescent Centers be rescinded and that the 91 beds relating thereto be returned to the January, 1988 planning horizon fixed pool. It is further recommended that the Secretary, Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services remand the case to the Division of Administrative Hearings for the conduct of a comparative hearing to evaluate the pending applicants within that batching cycle. RECOMMENDED this 28th day of January, 1987, at Tallahassee, Florida. ARNOLD H. POLLOCK, Hearing Officer Division of Administrative Hearings The Oakland Building 2009 Apalachee Parkway Tallahassee, Florida 32399 (904) 488-9675 Filed with the Clerk of the Division of Administrative Hearings this 28th day of January, 1987. APPENDIX The following constitutes my specific ruling pursuant to Section 120.57(2), Florida Statutes, on all of the Proposed Findings of Fact submitted by the parties in this case. Rulings on Proposed Findings of Fact Submitted by National Health Corporation, FMSC and Forum 1. Incorporated in Finding of Fact 4 except for the actual calculations outlined in the formulas which are incomplete. 2 & 3 Incorporated in Finding of Fact 5. 4-6 Incorporated in Finding of Fact 5. 7-13 Incorporated in Finding of Fact 6. 14 Not a Finding of Fact. Rulings on Proposed Findings of Fact Submitted by Health Care and Retirement Corporation Incorporated in Finding of Fact 4 except for the citation of the rule which is incomplete. Accepted. Accepted. Accepted and incorporated. 5-9 Accepted. 10 & 11 Accepted. 12 Rejected as not the best analysis. Rulings on Proposed Findings of Fact Submitted by Beverly Enterprises 1-3 Accepted. 4-6 Incorporated into Findings of Fact. 7 & 8 Accepted. Rejected as legal argument and not a Finding of Fact. & 11 Accepted. Rejected as legal argument and not a Finding of Fact. Cumulative to other findings. Rejected as legal argument and not a Finding of Fact. Incorporated in Finding of Fact. 16-20 Legal Argument not a Finding of Fact. 21-22 Cumulative to other evidence of record. Rulings on Proposed Findings of Fact Submitted by DHRS 1-3 Accepted. 4-8 Rejected as not supported by the weight of the evidence. 9 Accepted as to the calculation including the 91 beds available to FCC. Rejected as to the propriety of the award and the reason. Copies Furnished: William Page, Secretary Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services 1323 Winewood Boulevard Tallahassee, Florida 32301 Robert D. Newell, Jr., Esquire 200 South Monroe Street Tallahassee, Florida 32301 Kenneth A. Hoffman, Esquire Alfred W. Clark, Esquire 325 North Calhoun Street Tallahassee, Florida 32301 Stephen K. Boone, Esquire Post Office Box 1596 Venice, Florida 34284 R. Terry Rigsby, Esquire Post Office Box 10555 Tallahassee, Florida 32302 John Rodriguez, Esquire, Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services 1323 Winewood Boulevard Tallahassee, Florida 32301

Florida Laws (1) 120.57
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