ORDERS:
ORDER OF CONSOLIDATION
These matters are before me pursuant to Petitioner's separate requests for contested case hearings
in response to Administrative Orders issued to it by the South Carolina Department of Health and
Environmental Control (DHEC). In their Prehearing Statements, both Hospice of Colleton, Inc.,
and DHEC have requested that the cases be consolidated. Because the DHEC Administrative
Orders concern the identical factual situation relating to the Department's denial of a Certificate of
Need ("CON") for Hospice of Colleton County, Inc., to expand its Hospice program to provide
home health services to terminally ill patients in Colleton, Jasper and Hampton counties, judicial
economy dictates that the matters be consolidated into one contested case pursuant to Rule 42(a)
of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure.
AND IT IS SO ORDERED.
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ALISON RENEE LEE
Administrative Law Judge
September____, 1996
Columbia, South Carolina. |
