A federal judge’s ruling last week overturned a moratorium that prevented construction of private hospitals in two counties in southern Indiana, according to an article in Louisville Business First. The judge sided with two hospital groups that claimed they were being denied the right to compete in her ruling that the counties “do not have the power to prohibit health care competition in their respective counties.” The two new facilities proposed by Kentuckiana Medical Center and Sunnyside Land Co. are a 40-bed acute-care hospital, which will include a skill-nursing facility and long-term care hospital, and a 43-bed specialty hospital for cardiology, oncology, surgery, and critical care.
