NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on October 29, 2010, the Agency for Health Care Administration has issued an order.
The Order is regarding the Petition for Waiver of paragraph 59A-4.1295(7)(e), Florida Administrative Code, filed by Plantation Nursing and Rehabilitation Center on August 3, 2010. Notice of the Petition for Waiver was published in Vol. 36, No. 33 of the August 20, 2010, Florida Administrative Weekly. Petitioner sought a waiver of the provision of the rule limiting the total pediatric census at a skilled nursing facility to no more than sixty residents. Timely comments in opposition to the Petition were received. The Agency issued an Order denying the Petition as legally and factually insufficient to justify granting the Petition. The Petition did not, on its face, satisfy the statutory criteria necessary to warrant a waiver of the rule.
A copy of the Order may be obtained by contacting: Lorraine M. Novak, Assistant General Counsel, Agency for Health Care Administration, 2727 Mahan Drive, Mail Stop #3, Tallahassee, Florida 32308, Lorraine.Novak@ahca.myflorida.com or call: (850)412-3630.