Publication Date: 2003-09-12
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Robert S. Bomar, Clyde L. Reese, Deputy Attorneys General, Harold D. Melton, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Isaac Byrd, Sidney R. Barrett Jr., Assistant Attorneys General, and James D. Coots, Atlanta, for Georgia Dep't of Community Health. Jeffrey C. Baxter, Stanley S. Jones Jr. and Jennifer D. Malinovsky Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough, Atlanta, for EHCA LLC. Randall L. Hughes, Adrienne E. Marting, Charlotte A. Combre And John S. Rees Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, Atlanta, for Gwinnett Hosp. Sys. Alexander S. Clay Kilpatrick & Cody, John W. Ray, Dawnmarie Rodziewicz and James M. Sherman Ray & Sherman, Atlanta, for Saint Joseph's Hosp. Other Party Representation: Kathy K. Dorough Dorough & Dorough LLC, Decatur.
for defendant:
Case Number: A03A1214; A03A1215; A03A1216; A03A1217
The provisions of O.C.G.A. § 31-6-2 14, including the 12-month service rule, establish when an institution must apply for a hospital certificate of need, not whether an application is for a "new" or