Top NC court issues stay in Candler CON dispute
The North Carolina Supreme Court agreed Monday to stay a lower court’s ruling in a certificate-of-need dispute in western North Carolina.
AdventHealth is asking North Carolina’s highest court to take a case that would help clarify future legal disputes over the state’s certificate-of-need law.
The outcome of a legal dispute over a new hospital emergency department in Buncombe County could depend on a state law requiring a public hearing. The state Appeals Court will decide in the months ahead whether the absence of a public hearing jeopardizes the certificate of need for a new Mission Health emergency department in Candler.
A case at North Carolina's Court of Appeals focuses on the absence of public hearings in recent certificate-of-need decisions.
A recent decision in a legal dispute from western North Carolina could shake up multiple cases involving state certificates of need. The decision prompted one of the state’s largest health care providers to file a friend-of-the-court brief Monday.