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LAKELAND REGIONAL MEDICAL CTR. INC. v. AHCA

No. 1D04-5585.

917 So.2d 1024 (2006)

LAKELAND REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER, INC., Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, AGENCY FOR HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION, et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

January 6, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen R. Senn and Theodore W. Weeks, IV of Peterson & Myers, P.A., Lakeland, for Appellant.

Douglas B. MacInnes, Sr., Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Tallahassee; Thomas F. Panza, Mark A. Hendricks and Diane Lindstrom of Panza, Maurer & Maynard, P.A., Fort Lauderdale; and Geoffrey D. Smith, Kellie Scott, F. Phillip Blank and Cassandra Pasley of Blank, Meenan & Smith, P.A., Tallahassee.

POLSTON, J.

Appellant Lakeland Regional Medical Center, Inc., the only hospital in Polk County currently with an established open heart surgery program, is challenging the constitutionality and interpretation of 2004 statutory changes that have the effect of granting Winter Haven Hospital, Inc., a license to also perform open heart surgery. We reject Lakeland Regional's arguments that these statutes violate due process and equal protection, and its statutory argument...

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