S. MD. HOSP. v. FT. WASH. COMMUNITY HOSP.

No. 56, September Term, 1986.

308 Md. 323 (1987)

519 A.2d 727

SOUTHERN MARYLAND HOSPITAL CENTER, INC. ET AL. v. FORT WASHINGTON COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, INC. ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

January 12, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel J. O'Brien, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Stephen H. Sachs, Atty. Gen., Jennifer Robbins, Asst. Atty. Gen., on the brief), Baltimore, for State of Md., Maryland Health Resources Planning Com'n.

Gary R. Alexander (Alexander & Cleaver, on the brief), Fort Washington, for Southern Maryland Hosp. Center, Inc.

Robert V. Barton, Jr. (Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver, on the brief), Baltimore, for Greater Southeast Community Hosp. Corp.

Arvin W. Rosen (William L. Siskind and Siskind, Burch Grady & Rosen, on the brief), Baltimore, for AMI Doctors' Hosp. of Prince George's County.

Ellis J. Koch and O'Malley, Miles, McCarthy & Harrell, on the brief, Upper Marlboro, for Fort Washington Community Hosp., Inc.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, COUCH and McAULIFFE, JJ., and MARVIN H. SMITH, Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals of Maryland (retired), Specially Assigned.


MURPHY, Chief Judge.

The Maryland Health Resources Planning Commission (Commission) granted a certificate of need to Southern Maryland Hospital Center (Southern) to add thirty-seven medical/surgical beds to its existing 308-bed hospital. The certificate contained four "conditions" that required the hospital to submit additional information to the Commission. We must decide whether the Commission exceeded its authority in this case by granting a certificate of need...

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