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DOCTORS' OSTEO. MED. v. DEPT. OF HLT.

Nos. BG-117, BG-197.

498 So.2d 478 (1986)

DOCTORS' OSTEOPATHIC MEDICAL CENTER, INC., d/b/a Gulf Coast Hospital, Inc., Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES and Lee Memorial Hospital, Appellees. LEE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES and Doctors' Osteopathic Medical Center, Inc., d/b/a Gulf Coast Hospital, Inc., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied December 30, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard A. Carson and John D.C. Newton, II, of Carson & Linn, P.A., Tallahassee, for Doctors' Osteopathic Medical Center, Inc. d/b/a Gulf Coast Hosp., Inc.

R. Bruce McKibben, Jr., Asst. Gen. Counsel, Tallahassee, for Dept. of Health and Rehabilitative Services.

Ivan Wood, Jr., and Gary M. Reibschlager and Herbert T. Schwartz of Wood, Lucksinger & Epstein, Houston, Tex., for Lee Memorial Hosp.

BOOTH, Chief Judge.

This cause is before us on appeal and cross appeal from a final order entered by the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services (HRS), rejecting the hearing officer's finding of need for a 120-bed osteopathic facility in Fort Myers, and holding that there is a need for a 60-bed osteopathic facility.

The only issue which merits discussion is appellant's argument that HRS inappropriately changed the hearing officer's recommendation...

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