eLaws | eCases | Florida State | Florida Courts | Counties & Cities of Florida | Code of Federal Regulations |
Home » Cases Under Administrative Hearing » 15-002006CON

15-002006CON Vitas Healthcare Corporation Of Florida vs. West Florida Health, Inc., And Agency For Health Care Administration
 Status: Closed
Settled and/or Dismissed prior to entry of RO/FO on Monday, September 28, 2015.

View Dockets  

1STATE OF FLORIDA

4AGENCY FOR HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION ra r " c r. iCA r

152011 JAN 18 A q= 21

21VITAS HEALTHCARE CORPORATION OF FLORIDA,

26Petitioner, DOAH CASE NO.: 15- 2006CON

32VS. AHCA CASE NO.: 2015002669

37CON NO.: 10301

40STATE OF FLORIDA, AGENCY FOR

45HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION, AND

49WEST FLORIDA HEALTH, INC.

53Respondent.

54FINAL ORDER

56THIS CAUSE is before the State of Florida, Agency for Health Care Administration

69the Agency ") concerning the preliminary approval of Certificate of Need ( " CON ") 10302 filed

85by VITAS Healthcare Corporation of Florida ( " VITAS ") to establish a new hospice program,

100with respect to the fixed need pool for Sub - District 6 - A.

1141. The Agency comparatively reviewed CON applications for other beds and

125programs batching cycle with an application due date of February 20, 2015 for Sub - District 6 - A.

144For the case at hand, the reviews included in relevant part:

15510294 Gulfside Hospice & Pasco Palliative Care, Inc. New Hospice Program Denied

16710295 Odyssey Healthcare of Marion County, LLC New Hospice Program Denied

17810296 Palm Garden Hospice, LLC New Hospice Program Denied

18710297 Regency Hospice of Northwest Florida, Inc. New Hospice Program Denied

19810298 Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care of Tampa, LLC New Hospice Program Denied

21110299 Suncoast Bay Care Hospice of Hillsborough New Hospice Program Denied

22210300 Tidewell Hospice, Inc. New Hospice Program Denied

23010301 VITAS Healthcare Corporation of Florida New Hospice Program Denied

24010302 West Florida Health, Inc. New Hospice Program Approved

2492. On February 23, 2015, the Agency published notice in the Florida Administrative

262Register of its decisions regarding the preliminary denial of CON 10301 and the preliminary

276approval of CON 10302.

2803. On March 16, 2015, VITAS filed a Petition for Formal Administrative Hearing

293contesting the denial of its CON 10301, as well as the approval of CON 10302 to West Florida

311Health ("West Florida")

3164. On September 23, 2015, VITAS filed VITAS Healthcare Corporation of Florida's

328Notice ofVoluntary Dismissal.

3315. On September 28, 2015, the ALJ entered an Order Closing File.

343It is therefore ORDERED:

3471. The Agency denial ofVITAS; Application No. 10301 is UPHELD.

357ORDERED in Tallahassee, Florida, on this _a_ day 2017.

366ary

367n-.4-.:.u;r" Administration

370NOTICE OF RIGHT TO JUDICIAL REVIEW

376A party who is adversely affected by this Final Order is entitled to judicial review, which shall be

394instituted by filing the original Notice of Appeal with the Agency Clerk of AHCA, and a copy

411along with the filing fee prescribed by law with the District Court of Appeal in the appellate

428district where the Agency maintains its headquarters or where a party resides. Review of

442proceedings shall be conducted in accordance with the Florida appellate rules. The Notice of

456Appeal must be filed within 30 days ofthe rendition ofthe order to be reviewed.

470CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

473I HEREBY CERTIFY that a true and correct copy of the foregoing Final Order has

488been furnished by the method designated to the persons named below on this

501'2017.

5027

503Richard J. Shoop, Agenc Clerk

508Agency for Health Care Administration

5132727 Mahan Drive, Mail Stop #3

519Tallahassee, Florida 32308

522(850) 412-3630

524R. Bruce McKibben

527Administrative Law Judge

530Division of Administrative Hearings

534(Electronic Filing)

536Stephen K. Boone, Esquire

540Boone, Boone, Boone, and Koda, P .A.

5471 001 A venida Del Circo

553PO Box 1596

556Venice, Florida 34284-1596

559ATTORNEY FOR WEST FLORIDA HEALTH INC.

565sboone@boone-law.com

566Seann M. Frazier, Esquire

570Parker, Hudson, Rainer and Dobbs, LLP

576215 South Monroe Street, Suite 750

582Tallahassee, Florida 32301

585ATTORNEY FOR LIFEPA TH HOSPICE, INC.

591sfrazier@phrd. com

593twd@phrd.com

594(Electronic Mail)

596Jonathan L. Rue, Esquire

600Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs LLP

606285 Peachtree Center A venue Northeast, Suite 1500

614Atlanta, Georgia 30303-1233

617jrue@phrd.com

618(Electronic Mail)

620Michael J. Glazer, Esquire

624Ausley & McMullen

627123 South Calhoun Street

631Post Office Box 391

635Tallahassee, Florida 32302

638mglazer@ausley.com

639(Electronic Mail)

641Jay Adams, Esquire

644Frank P. Rainer, Esquire

648Broad and Cassel

651215 South Monroe Street, Suite 400

657Tallahassee, Florida 32301

660jadams@broadandcassel.com

661frainer@broadandcassel.com

662kdilworth@broadandcassel.com

663(Electronic Mail)

665Robert A. Weiss, Esquire

669Moyle Law Firm, P .A.

674118 North Gadsden Street

678Tallahassee, Florida 32301

681mqualls@moylelaw.com

682rweiss@moylelaw .com

684Stephen C. Emmanuel, Esquire

688Ausley & McMullen

691Post Office Box 391

695Tallahassee, FL 32302-0391

698semmanuel@ausley.com

699(Electronic Mail)

701R. Terry Rigsby, Esquire

705Pennington, P .A.

708215 South Monroe Street, Second Floor

714Tallahassee, Florida 32301

717trigsby@penningtonlaw .com

719(Electronic Mail)

721Karl D. Acuff, Esquire

725Law Office of Karl David Acuff

7311615 Village Square Boulevard

7351615 Village Square Boulevard Suite 2

741Tallahassee, Florida 32309-2770

744Kd _acuff@floridacourts.com

746Richard Joseph Saliba, Assistant General Counsel

752Michael Hardy, Assistant General Counsel

757Office of the General Counsel

762Agency for Health Care Administration

767(Electronic Mail)

769JaniceK. Mills, Government Analyst II

774Facilities Intake Unit

777Agency for Health Care Administration

782(Electronic Mail)

784Marisol M. Fitch, Unit Manager

789Certificate ofNeed Unit

792Agency for Health Care Administration

797(Electronic Mail)

799Bernard Hudson, Unit Manager

803Long Term Care Unit

807Agency for Health Care Administration

812(Electronic Mail)

Dockets
Select the PDF icon to view the document.
PDF
Date
Proceedings
PDF:
Date: 01/24/2017
Proceedings: Agency Final Order filed.
PDF:
Date: 01/18/2017
Proceedings: Agency Final Order
PDF:
Date: 09/28/2015
Proceedings: Order Closing File. CASE CLOSED.
PDF:
Date: 09/23/2015
Proceedings: Notice of Taking Deposition Duces Tecum (of Kathy Postiglione) filed.
PDF:
Date: 09/23/2015
Proceedings: Notice of Taking Deposition Duces Tecum (of Tara Scalise) filed.
PDF:
Date: 09/23/2015
Proceedings: Notice of Taking Deposition Duces Tecum (of Linda Ward) filed.
PDF:
Date: 09/23/2015
Proceedings: Notice of Taking Deposition Duces Tecum (of Deborah Gills) filed.
PDF:
Date: 09/23/2015
Proceedings: Notice of Taking Deposition Duces Tecum (of Tony Trovato) filed.
PDF:
Date: 09/23/2015
Proceedings: Vitas Healthcare Corporation of Florida's Notice of Voluntary Dismissal filed.
PDF:
Date: 09/21/2015
Proceedings: [Gulfsides] Notice of Taking Depositions filed.
PDF:
Date: 09/10/2015
Proceedings: Gulfside's Supplement to Its Final Witness List (filed in Case No. 15-002007CON).
PDF:
Date: 09/10/2015
Proceedings: Gulfside's Supplement to its Final Witness List (filed in Case No. 15-002008CON).
PDF:
Date: 09/01/2015
Proceedings: Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care of Tampa, LLC's Final Witness List filed.
PDF:
Date: 09/01/2015
Proceedings: LifePath Hospice Inc.'s. Final Witness List filed.
PDF:
Date: 09/01/2015
Proceedings: Gulfside's Final Witness List (filed in Case No. 15-002008CON).
PDF:
Date: 09/01/2015
Proceedings: Vitas Healthcare Corporation of Florida's Final Witness List filed.
PDF:
Date: 09/01/2015
Proceedings: Gulfside's Preliminary Witness List filed.
PDF:
Date: 09/01/2015
Proceedings: West Florida Health, Inc.'s Witness List filed.
PDF:
Date: 08/21/2015
Proceedings: Seasons Response to Guflside's Second Request for Production filed.
PDF:
Date: 08/19/2015
Proceedings: LifePath Hospice, Inc.'s Resonses and Objections to West Florida Health, Inc.'s First Request for Production filed.
PDF:
Date: 08/19/2015
Proceedings: Notice of Serving Lifepath Hospice, Inc., Responses to West Florida Health, Inc., First Interrogatories filed.
PDF:
Date: 08/18/2015
Proceedings: Notice of Appearance (Michael Glazer) (filed in Case No. 15-002003CON).
PDF:
Date: 08/12/2015
Proceedings: Vitas Healthcare Corporation of Florida's Response to Gulfside Hospice & Pasco Palliative Care, Inc.'s First Request for Production filed.
PDF:
Date: 08/07/2015
Proceedings: Gulfsides Notice of Service of Discovery Responses and Objections filed.
PDF:
Date: 08/07/2015
Proceedings: Vitas Responses to West Floridas First Request for Production filed.
PDF:
Date: 08/07/2015
Proceedings: Vitas Response to Seasons Second Request for Production filed.
PDF:
Date: 08/07/2015
Proceedings: Vitas Response to Seasons First Request for Production filed.
PDF:
Date: 08/07/2015
Proceedings: Notice of Service of Vitas Responses to West Floridas First Interrogatories filed.
PDF:
Date: 08/07/2015
Proceedings: Notice of Service of Vitas Responses to Seasons Second Interrogatories filed.
PDF:
Date: 08/07/2015
Proceedings: Notice of Service of Vitas Responses to Seasons First Interrogatories filed.
PDF:
Date: 08/07/2015
Proceedings: Seasons Notice of Service of Answers to First Interrogatories from Vitas filed.
PDF:
Date: 08/07/2015
Proceedings: Seasons Response to First Request for Production from Vitas filed.
PDF:
Date: 08/07/2015
Proceedings: Seasons Notice of Service of Answers to First Interrogatories from West Florida filed.
PDF:
Date: 08/07/2015
Proceedings: Seasons Response to First Request for Production from West Florida filed.
PDF:
Date: 08/07/2015
Proceedings: Seasons Response to First Request for Production from Gulfside filed.
PDF:
Date: 08/07/2015
Proceedings: West Florida Health, Inc.'s Response to Lifepath's, Seasons', VITAS' and Gulfside's First Request for Production of Documents and Gulfside's Second Request for Production of Documents filed.
PDF:
Date: 08/07/2015
Proceedings: West Florida Health, Inc.'s Notice of Service of Responses to Lifepaths, Seasons' and VITAS' First Interrogatories filed.
PDF:
Date: 07/22/2015
Proceedings: Gulfside's Second Request for Production to Seasons (filed in Case No. 15-002007CON).
PDF:
Date: 07/13/2015
Proceedings: Gulfside's Second Request for Production to West Florida Health (filed in Case No. 15-002008CON).
PDF:
Date: 07/13/2015
Proceedings: Gulfside's First Request for Production to VITAS (filed in Case No. 15-002008CON).
PDF:
Date: 07/13/2015
Proceedings: Gulfside's First Request for Production to Seasons (filed in Case No. 15-002008CON).
PDF:
Date: 07/13/2015
Proceedings: Gulfsides Second Request for Production to West Florida Health (filed in Case No. 15-002008CON).
PDF:
Date: 06/17/2015
Proceedings: Notice of Filing Joint Proposed Order of Pre-hearing Instructions filed.
PDF:
Date: 06/05/2015
Proceedings: Amended Notice of Hearing (hearing set for November 30 through December 4, 7 through 11 and 14 through 18, 2015; 9:00 a.m.; Tallahassee, FL; amended as to Dates).
Date: 06/05/2015
Proceedings: CASE STATUS: Pre-Hearing Conference Held.
PDF:
Date: 06/03/2015
Proceedings: Order Denying Continuance of Final Hearing.
PDF:
Date: 06/03/2015
Proceedings: (Respondents') Agreed Motion for Continuance filed.
PDF:
Date: 06/02/2015
Proceedings: Seasons Hospice and Palliative Care of Tampa, LLC's Notice of Service of First Interrogatories to Gulfside Hospice & Palliative Care, Inc. filed.
PDF:
Date: 06/02/2015
Proceedings: Seasons Hospice and Palliative Care of Tampa, LLC's First Request for Production to Gulfside Hospice & Palliative Care, Inc. filed.
PDF:
Date: 06/02/2015
Proceedings: Seasons Hospice and Palliative Care of Tampa, LLC's Second Request for Production to Vitas Healthcare Corporation of Florida filed.
PDF:
Date: 06/02/2015
Proceedings: Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care of Tampa's Notice of Service of Second Interrogatories to Vitas Healthcare Corporation of Florida filed.
PDF:
Date: 06/02/2015
Proceedings: Seasons Hospices Second Request for Produciton to Vitas filed.
PDF:
Date: 06/01/2015
Proceedings: West Florida Health, Inc.'s Response to Gulfside Hospice & Pasco Palliative Care, Inc.'s First Request for Production of Documents filed.
PDF:
Date: 06/01/2015
Proceedings: Seasons Hospice and Palliative Care of Tampa, LLC's First Request for Production to VITAS Healthcare Corporation of Florida filed.
PDF:
Date: 05/29/2015
Proceedings: Vitas Healthcare Corporation of Florida's First Request for Production of Documents to Gulfside Hospice & Pasco Palliative Care, Inc., filed.
PDF:
Date: 05/29/2015
Proceedings: Notice of Serving Vitas Healthcare Corporation of Florida's First Interrogatories to Gulfside Hospice & Pasco Palliative Care, Inc., filed.
PDF:
Date: 05/29/2015
Proceedings: Vitas Healthcare Corporation of Floridas First Request for Production of Documents to Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care of Tampa filed.
PDF:
Date: 05/29/2015
Proceedings: Notice of Serving Vitas Healthcare Corporation of Florida's First Interrogatories to Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care of Tampa, LLC filed.
PDF:
Date: 05/29/2015
Proceedings: Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care of Tampa's Notice of Service of First Interrogatories to Vitas Healthcare Corporation of Florida filed.
PDF:
Date: 05/13/2015
Proceedings: Notice of Serving West Florida Health, Inc. First Interrogatories to VITAS Healthcare Corporation of Florida Coast, Inc. filed.
PDF:
Date: 05/12/2015
Proceedings: Notice of Serving Vitas Healthcare Corporation of Florida's First Interrogatories to West Florida Health, Inc. filed.
PDF:
Date: 05/12/2015
Proceedings: West Florida Health, Inc.'s First Request for Production to Lifepath Hospice, Inc., filed.
PDF:
Date: 05/12/2015
Proceedings: West Florida Health, Inc.'s Notice of Service of its First Request for Production to Lifepath Hospice, Inc., filed.
PDF:
Date: 05/12/2015
Proceedings: Notice of Serving West Florida Health, Inc., First Interrogatories to Seasons Hospice and Palliative Care of Tampa, Inc., filed.
PDF:
Date: 05/12/2015
Proceedings: Notice of Serving West Florida Health, Inc., First Interrogatories to Lifepath Hospice, Inc. filed.
PDF:
Date: 05/07/2015
Proceedings: Order Granting Joint Motion to Amend Case Style and Remove Counsel from Service List.
PDF:
Date: 05/07/2015
Proceedings: West Florida Health, Inc.'s First Request for Production to Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care, Inc. filed.
PDF:
Date: 05/07/2015
Proceedings: West Florida Health, Inc.'s Notice of Service of its First Request for Production to Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care of Tampa, LLC filed.
PDF:
Date: 05/07/2015
Proceedings: West Florida Health, Inc.'s First Request for Production to VITAS Healthcare Corporation of Florida Coast, Inc. filed.
PDF:
Date: 05/07/2015
Proceedings: West Florida Health, Inc.'s Notice of Service of its First Request for Production to VITAS Healthcare Corporation of Florida filed.
PDF:
Date: 05/06/2015
Proceedings: Seasons Hospice and Palliative Care of Tampa, LLC's First Request for Produciton to West Florida Health, Inc filed.
PDF:
Date: 05/06/2015
Proceedings: Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care of Tampa's Notice of Service of First Interrogatories to West Florida Health, Inc filed.
PDF:
Date: 05/06/2015
Proceedings: West Florida Health, Inc.'s Notice of Service of its First Request for Production to Gulfside Hospice & Palliative Care, Inc. filed.
PDF:
Date: 05/06/2015
Proceedings: West Florida Health, Inc.'s First Request for Production to Gulfside Hospice & Palliative Care, Inc. filed.
PDF:
Date: 05/05/2015
Proceedings: LifePath Hospice, Inc.'s First Request for Production of Documents to West Florida Health, Inc., filed.
PDF:
Date: 05/05/2015
Proceedings: Notice of Serving LifePath Hospice, Inc., First Interrogatories to West Florida Health, Inc., filed.
PDF:
Date: 05/04/2015
Proceedings: Vitas Healthcare Corp. of Florida's First Request for Production of Documents to West Florida Health, Inc. filed.
PDF:
Date: 05/04/2015
Proceedings: Joint Motion to Amend Case Style and Remove Counsel from Service List filed.
PDF:
Date: 05/01/2015
Proceedings: Gulfside's Notice of Service of Its First Request For Production to West Florida Health, Inc. (filed in Case No. 15-002008CON).
PDF:
Date: 05/01/2015
Proceedings: Order of Consolidation (DOAH Case Nos. 15-2001CON, 15-2003CON, 15-2006CON, 15-2007CON, 15-2008CON).
PDF:
Date: 04/24/2015
Proceedings: Joint Response to Initial Order filed.
PDF:
Date: 04/14/2015
Proceedings: Amended Notice filed.
PDF:
Date: 04/14/2015
Proceedings: Initial Order.
PDF:
Date: 04/13/2015
Proceedings: Decisions on Batched Applications filed.
PDF:
Date: 04/13/2015
Proceedings: Petition for Formal Administrative Hearing filed.
PDF:
Date: 04/13/2015
Proceedings: Notice (of Agency referral) filed.

Case Information

Judge:
R. BRUCE MCKIBBEN
Date Filed:
04/13/2015
Date Assignment:
04/14/2015
Last Docket Entry:
01/24/2017
Location:
Tallahassee, Florida
District:
Northern
Agency:
Other
Suffix:
CON
 

Counsels