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MEDICAL CENTER HOSPITAL v. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES and United Medical Corporation, Appellees C.M.S.F., INC., d/b/a Charter Glade Hospital v. STATE of Florida, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES, and United Medical Corporation d/b/a Charlotte County Psychiatric Center
PER CURIAM.
This is a consolidated appeal of final orders denying appellants standing to intervene as parties in an administrative hearing to contest the issuance of a certificate of need (CON) to appellee. We find that appellants, licenced short-term psychiatric facilities, have standing to contest issuance of a CON for a long-term psychiatric facility. See Psychiatric Institutes of America, Inc. v. Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, 491 So.2d 1199 (Fla. 1st DCA 1986).
REVERSED.
ERVIN, WIGGINTON and BARFIELD, JJ., concur.