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Calendar Year 2024 

  1. Staff Report and Recommendation - UM Shore Medical Center at Easton - Docket No.  23-20-2463
  2. Staff Report and Recommendation - Certificate of Conformance - UM Shore Medical Center at Easton - Docket No. 23-20-CC042
  3. Report for the Project Change of: UM-Upper Chesapeake Medical Center and UM-Harford Memorial Hospital - Docket No. 17-12-EX003
  4. Staff Report for the Project Change of Hygea Detox at Camp Meade - Docket No.  23-02-2468 
  5. Staff Report and Recommendation: Certificate of Ongoing Performance - MedStar Southern Maryland - Docket No. 19-16-CP027
  6. Staff Report and Recommendation: Certificate of Ongoing Performance - Frederick Health Hospital - Docket No. 19-10-CP025
  7. Staff Report and Recommendation: Certificate of Ongoing Performance - Sinai Hospital - Docket No. 22-24-CP037
  8. Staff Report for the Project Change of TidalHealth Peninsula Regional Medical Center/Tidal Health McCready Pavilion - Docket No. 19-19-EX010
  9. Staff Report and Recommendation - Hillhaven SNF Operator, LLC Docket No. 24-16-2469 
  10. Staff Report and Recommendation - University of Maryland Medical Center Child and Adolescent Psych Unit- Docket No. 18-24-2429 
  11. Staff Report and Recommendation -  Univeristy of Maryland Medical Center - Docket No. 19-24-2438 
  12. Staff Report and Recommendation - University of Maryland Rehabilitation and Orthropaedic Institute and University of Maryland Medical Center Docket No. 23-24-EX017
  13. Staff Report and Recommendation - University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center Docket No. 24-02-CP049 
  14. Staff Report and Recommendation - Chesapeake Eye Surgery, LLC Docket No. 22-02-2461
  15. Staff Report and Recommendation - Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Docket No. 24-24-CP045
  16. Staff Report and Recommendation - Harborside SurgCenter Docket No. 24-16-2470 
  17. Staff Report and Recommendation: Certificate of Ongoing Performance - University of Maryland Capital Region Medical Center Docket No. 24-16-CP052
  18. Staff Report and Recommendation: Certificate of Ongoing Performance - Medstar Franklin Square Medical Center Docket No. 24-03-CP051 
  19. Staff Report and Recommendation: Certificate of Ongoing Performance - Medstar Union Memorial Hospital Hospital Docket No. 24-24-CP054 
  20. Staff Report and Recommendation: Certificate of Ongoing Performance -  Carroll Hospital Center, Inc. - Docket No. 24-06-CP053
  21. Staff Report and Recommendation: Certificate of Ongoing Performance- Acension Saint Agnes- Docket No. 24-24-CP046 

Calendar Year 2023

  1. Staff Report and Recommendation: Certificate of Ongoing Performance - Johns Hopkins Hospital - Docket No. 22-24-CP039
  2. Staff Report and Recommendation::Certificate of Ongoing Performance - Peninsula Regional - 22-22-CP040
  3. Staff Report and Recommendation: Certificate of Ongoing Performance - White Oak Medical Center - Docket No. 22-15-CP041 
  4. Staff Report and Recommendation: Certificate of Ongoing Performance - University of Maryland Medical Center - Docket No. 22-24-CP036
  5. Staff Report and Recommendation: Certificate of Ongoing Performance - UM-St. Joseph Medical Center - Docket No. 22-03-CP038
  6. Staff Report and Recommendation: Certificate of Ongoing Performance - MedStar Union Memorial Hospital - Docket No. 22-24-CP035
  7. Staff Report and Recomendation: Chesapeake Eye Surgery Center - Docket No. 22-02-2461
  8. Staff Report for the Modification of Laurel Regional Hospital - Docket No. 18-16-EX002
  9. Staff Report and Recommendation: UM-Capital Region Health - Docket No. 23-16-2464
  10. Staff Report for the Modificaton of Shady Grove Medical Center - Docket No. 20-15-2443
  11. Reviewer's Reccomendation: Pascal Crisis Services - Docket No. 22-02-2459 
  12. Staff Report and Recommendation: Alpas Wellness-LaPlata - Docket No. 22-04-2462 
  13. Staff Report and Recomendation: Exemption from CON Review - Hospice of the Chesapeake, Inc., Hospice of Charles Co, Calvert Hospice Merger - Docket No. 23-02-EX016
  14. Staff Report and Recommendation: Hygea Detox at Camp Meade - Docket No. 23-02-2468
  15. Staff Report for the Modification of University of Maryland Medical Center - Docket No.  19-24-2438
  16. Staff Report and Recommendation: Exemption from CON Review - CommuniCare Clinton/Ft. Washington - Docket No.  23-16-EX015 
  17. Staff Report for the Modification of Baltimore Detox Center - Docket No. 18-03-2419
  18. Staff Report and Recommendation: Luminus Health Doctors Community Hospital - Docket No. 23-16-2466

Calendar Year 2022

  1. Staff Report and Recommendation - Hygea Detox, Inc. - Docket No. 21-03-2450
  2. Report for the Modification of St. Joseph Medical Center - Docket No. 18-032415 
  3. Reviewers Recommended Decision in the Matter of Hope Health System Inc. - Docket No. 20-03-2444
  4. Report for the Modification of Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Southern Maryland - Docket No. 18-16-2423
  5. Report for the Modification of Washington Adventist Hospital - Docket No. 13-15-2349
  6. Report for the Modification of Maryland Capital Regional Health Laurel Regional Hopsital Exemption - Docket No. 18-16-EX002 
  7. Staff Report and Recommendatoin Carroll County Home Health Agency Review- Adventist Home Health Services Docket No. 22-06-2456 and Carenet Health Systems and Services (Lorient) Docket No. 22-06-2457
  8. Staff Report and Recommendation Pyramid Healthcare, Inc. - Docket No.  22-16-2452 
  1. Staff Report and Recommendation Encompass health Rehabilitation Hospital of Southern Maryland - Docket No. 22-16-2458
  2. Report and Recommendation - Exemption from CON Review - Communicare Health Services - Docket No. 22-16-EX014 
  3. Staff Report and Recommendation - Avenues Recovery Center of Maryland - (Docket No. 22-04-2455) 
  4. Report and Recommendation: Certificate of Ongoing Performance - UPMC Western Maryland - (Docket No. 22-01-CP034)
  5. Staff Report and Recommendation - Board of Childcare of the United Methodist Church (Docket No.  22-03-2460)

Calendar Year 2021

  1. Report and Recommendation - Certificate of Ongoing Performance - Holy Cross Hospital - Docket No. 19-15-CP016
  2. Report and Recommendation - Certificate of Ongoing Performance - UM-Prince George's Medical Center - Docket No. 19-16-CP029
  3. Report and Recommendation - University of Maryland Medical Center - Docket No. 20-24-2445 - Updated
  4. Report for the Modification of Encompass Health Rehabilitation of Southern Maryland - Docket No. 18-16-2423
  5. Report for the Modification of Sheppard Pratt at Elkridge - Docket No. 15-13-2367 
  6. Report and Recommendation - Shady Grove Medical Center - Docket No. 20-15-2443 
  7. Report and Recommendation - Certificate of Ongoing Performance - UPMC Western Maryland - Docket No. 19-01-CP024
  8. Report and Recommendation - Certificate of Ongoing Performance - Meritus Medical Center - Docket No. 19-21-CP028
  9. Report for the Third Modification of Sheppard Pratt at Elkridge - Docket 15-13-2367
  10. Report and Recommendation - Certificate of Ongoing Performance - Adventist Shady Grove Medical Center - Docket No. 19-15-CP030 
  11. Report and Recommendation - Hillhaven Nursing & Rehabilitation Center - Docket No. 121-16-2447
  12. Report and Recommendation - Change Condition - Washington Adventist Hospital - Docket No. 13-15-2349
  13. Report and Recommendation - Luminis Health - Doctors Community Hospital - Docket No. 21-16-2448
  14. Report and Recommendation - Change in Approved Exemption-LifeBridge Health-Northwest Hospital - Docket No. 19-24-EX011
  15. Report and Recommendation - Avenues Recovery Center - Docket No.  21-09-2449
  16. Report and Recommendation - Exemption from CON Review - Grace Medical Center - Docket No. 21-24-EX013 
  17. Report and Recommendation - Certificate of Ongoing Performance - Suburban Hospital - Docket No. 19-15-CP031
  18. Report and Recommendation - Certificate of Ongoing Performance Cardiac Surgery - Suburban Hospital - Docket No. 17-15-CP003

Calendar Year 2020

  1. Staff Report Exemption from Certificate of Need: Edward W. McCready Memorial Hospital into a Freestanding Medical Facility - Docket No.19-19-EX010 
  2. Staff Report and Recommendation Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center - Docket No. 18-24-2430
  3. Staff Report for the Modification of Brinton Wods Health Care Center - Docket No. 18-06-2422 
  4. Staff Report and Recommendation Baltimore Detox Center - Docket No. 18-03-2419 
  5. Staff Report Exemption from Certificate of Need Harford Memorial Hospital Conversion to Freestanding Medical Facility - Docket No. 17-12-EX004
    1. Revised Final Order - April 13, 2020
  6. Staff Report Exemption from Certificate of Need: Consolidation Upper Chesapeake Medical Center/Harford Memorial Hospital - Docket No. 17-12-EX003 
  7. Staff Report and Recommendation Upper Chesapeake-Aberdeen - Docket Not. 18-12-2436
  8. Staff Report and Recommendation: Certificate of Conformance - Howard County General Hospital - Docket No. CC-19-13-008
  9. Staff Report and Recommendation:  Encompass Health Rehabilitation Center of Southern Maryland - Docket No. 18-16-2423
  10. Staff Report and Recommendation: Certificate of Ongoing Performance - Upper Chesapeake Medical Center - Docket No. 19-12-CP017
  11. Staff Report and Recommendation: Pyramid Walden-Joppa - Docket No. 20-12-2440
  12. Staff Report and Recommendation: Certificate of Ongoing Performance - Howard County General Hospital - Docket No. 19-13-CP012
  13. Staff Report and Recommendation: Certificate of Ongoing Performance - Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center - Docket No. 19-24-CP013
  14. Staff Report and Recommendation: Certificate of Ongoing Performance - St. Agnes Hospital - Dockdet No. 19-24-CP015
  15. Staff Report and Recommendation-Certificate of Ongoing Performance - Anne Arundel Medical Center - Docket No. 19-02-CP010
  16. Staff Report and Recommendation-Certificate of Ongoing Performance - Franklin Square Medical Cnter - Docket No. 19-03-CP014
  17. Staff Report and Recommendation-Certificate of Ongoing Performance - Baltimore Washington Medical Center - Docket No. 19-02-CP016 
  18. Staff Report and Recommendation: Greater Baltimore Medical Center - Docket No. 19-03-2439
  19. Staff Report and Recommentation:  University of Maryland-Cancer Center - Docket No. 19-24-2438 
  20. Staff Report and Recommendation-Certificate of Ongoing Performance - MedStar Union Memorial Hospital - Docket Ni. 19-24-CP018 
  21. Staff Report and Recommendation-Certificate of Ongoing Performance - Carroll Hospital Center - Docket No. 19-06-CP011 
  22. Reviewer's Recommendation in the Matter of:  Suburban Hospital - Docket No. 17-15-2400
    1. WIthdrawal Letter 
  23. Staff Report and Recommendation:  UM Midtown SurgiCenter - Docket No. 20-24-2442
  24. Staff Report and Recommendation-Certificate of Ongoing Performance - UM-St. Jospeh Medical Center - Docket No. 19-03-CP023
  25. Staff Report and Recommendation-Certificate of Ongoing Performance - Sinai Hospital of Baltimore - Docket No. 19-24-CP020 
  26. Staff Report for Modification Gilchrist Hospice d/b/a Joseph Rickey House - Docket No. 17-24-2417

 

Calendar Year 2019

  1. Staff Report and Recommendation Western Maryland Home Health Agency Review:  Adventist Home Health Services - Docket No. 17-R2-2397; Amedisys Home Health - Docket No. 17-R2-2398; Bayada Home Health Care - Docket No. 17-R2-2399 
  2. Staff Report and Recommendation in the Matter of Addiction Recovery, Inc. d/b/a Hope House - Docket No. 18-16-2416
  3. Staff Report for the Modification of Anne Arundel Medical Center Mental Health Hospital - Docket No. 16-02-2375 
  4. Staff Report and Recommendation Prince George's County General Hospice Review:  Amedisys Maryland, LLC 16-16-2382; Bayada Home Health Care, Inc, 16-16-2383; Montgomery Hospice 16-16-2384; P-B Health Home Care Agency, Inc. 16-16-2385
  5. Staff Report and Recommendation - Adventist Rehabilitation Hospital of Maryland - Docket No. 18-15-2428 
    1. Revised Final Order - Adventist Rehabilitation Hospital of Maryland 
  6. Staff Report and Recommendation: Application for Certificate of Ongoing Performance for Cardiac Surgery - Washington Adventist Hospital - Docket No. CP-17-15-001 
  7. Staff Report and Recommendation: Application for Certificate of Ongoing Performance for Cardiac Surgery - Western Maryland Regional Medical Center - Docket No. 17-01-CP002
  8. Staff Report and Recommendation: Application for Certificate of Ongoing Performance for Cardiac Surgery - Peninsula Regional Medical Center - Docket No. 17-22-CP004
  9. Staff Report and Recommendation: Atlantic General Surgery Center - Docket No. 18-23-2431
  10. Staff Report and Recommendation: Application for Certificate of Ongoing Performance for Cardiac Surgery - St. Joseph Medical center - Docket No. 17-03-CP007
  11. Staff Report and Recommendation: Application for Certificate of Ongoing Performance for Cardiac Surgery - MedStar Union Memorial Medical Center - Docket No. 17-24-CP008
  12. Staff Report and Recommendation: Application for Certificate of Ongoing Performance for Cardiac Surgery - Johns Hopkins Hospital - Docket No. 17-24-CP009
  13. Staff Report Exemption from Certificate of Need Review: UM-Shore Medical Center at Dorchester: Conversion to a Free-Standing Medical Facility - Docket No. 18-09-EX006  
  14. Staff Report Exemption from Certificate of Need Review: Consolidation of UM-Shore Medical Center at Dorchester and UM-Shore Medical Center at Easton - Docket No. 18-20-EX007 Revised
  15. Staff Report and Recommendation: Peninsula Regional Medical Center - Docket No. 18-22-2417
  16. Staff Report and Recommendation: University of Maryland Medical Center - Docket No. 18-24-2429
  17. Staff Report and Recommendation: Application for Certificate of Ongoing Performance for Cardiac Surgery - Sinai Hospital of Baltimore - Docket No. 17-24-CP005
  18. Staff Report and Recommendation: Application for Certificate of Ongoing Performance for Cardiac Surgery - University of Maryland Medical Center - Docket No. 17-24-CP006 
  19. Staff Report and Recommendation: Maryland Surgery Center for Women - Docket No. 18-15-2434
  20. Staff Report and Recommendation: White Marsh Surgical Center - Docket No. 18-2-03-2437 
  21. Staff Report and Recommendation: Baltimore CIty Hospice Review - Bayada Hospice 16-24-2387; Carroll Hospice 16-24-2388 and P-B Health Home Care Agency 16-24-2389
  22. Staff Report and Recommendation: Upper Eastern Shore Home Health Review - Amedisys Maryland 18-R1-2424; Bayada Home Health Care 18-R1-2425 and Optimal Health Care 81-R1-2426
  23. Staff Report and Recommendation: Gaurdenzia Crownsville - Docket No. 18-02-2421 
  24. Staff Report Exemption from Certificate of Need Review:   LifeBridge Health -Consolidation of Adult Acute Psychiatric Beds - Docket No. 19-24-EX011
  25. Staff Report and Recommendation - Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Salisbury - Docket No. 18-22-2435 

Calendar Year 2018

  1. Staff Report and Reommendation for the Modification of Prince George's Post Acute - (Docket No.  13-16-2347)
  2. Staff Report and Recommendation in the Matter of Broadmead, Inc. - (Docket No. 17-03-2394) 
  3. Staff Report and Recommendation in the Matter of Thomas Johnson Surgery Center - (Docket No. 17-10-2410 
  4. Reviewer's Recommended Decision in the Matter of Anne Arundel Medical Center Mental Health Hospital (Docket No. 16-02-2375)
  5. Staff Report and Recommendation in the Matter of Sacred Heart Home - (Docket No. 17-16-2411)
  6. Staff Report Exemption from Certificate of Need Review: Consolidation of Adventist HealthCare Behavioral Health & Wellness-Rockville and Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove Medical Center
  7. Staff Report and Recommendation in the Matter of Minerva Home HealthCare, Inc. - (Docket No. 17-R3-2402
  8. Staff Report Exemption from Certificate of Need Review: Innovations Surgery Center 
  9. Staff Report and Recommendation in the Matter of Visiting Nurse Association of Maryland, LLC - (Docket No. 17-R4-2407)
  10. Staff Report and Recommendation in the Matter of Gilchirst Center Baltimore (Jospeh Richey House) - (Docket No. 17-24-2412) 
  11. Staff Report and Recommendation in the Matter of Childreh's Hospital ASC - Docket No. 18-16-2413
  12. Staff Report Exemption from Certificate of Need Review:  Dimensions Health Corporation d/b/a UM Capital Region Health, UM Laurel Regional Hospital, and UM Prince George's Hospital Center - Docket No. 18-16-EX002
  13. Staff Report for the Modification of Washington Adventist Hospital - Docket No. 13-15-2349
  14. Staff Report and Recommendation in the Matter of Brinton Woods Health & Rehabilitation at Winfield - Docket No. 18-06-2422
  15. Staff Report and Recommendation in the Matter of St. Joseph's Medical Center - Docket No. 18-03-2415
  16. Staff Report Exemption from Certificate of Need Review:  Consolidation of Psychiatric Hospital Facilities: Shady Grove Medical Center and Washington Adventist Hospital - Docket No. 18-15-EX005
  17. Staff Report for the Modification of Stella Maris - Docket No. 16-03-2376
  18. Staff Report for the Modification of Coastal Hospice - Docket No.  17-22-2404 
  19. Staff Report Exemption from Certificate of Need Review: Summit Ambulatory Surgery Center - Docket No. 18-02-EX009
  20. Change to Approved Certificate of Need:  Western Maryland Regional Medical Center - Docket No. 97-01-2012 and Suburban Hospital - Docket No. 04-15-2134 

Calendar Year 2017

  1. Reviewer's Recommended Decision in the Matter of Baltimore Upper Shore Cardiac Review (Docket No. 15-02-2360 and 15-02-2361) -(Postponed until March 2017 Meeting)
    1. Anne Arundel Medical Center's Response to Recommended Decision
    2. Baltimore Washington Medical Center's Exceptions to Recommended Decision
    3. Dimensions Health Care's Exceptions to Recommended Decision
    4. MedStar Health's Exceptions to Recommended Decision
    5. Anne Arundel Medical Center's Response to Exceptions on Recommended Decision 
  2. Reviewer's Recommended Decision in the Matter of Recovery Centers of America-Waldorf (Docket No. 15-08-2362
  3. Reviewer's Recommended Decision in the Matter of Recovery Centers of America-Upper Marlboro (Docket No. 15-16-2364) 
  4. Reviewer's Recommended Decision in the Matter of Lorien Nursing & Rehab Elkridge - (Docket No. 16-13-2379) 
  5. Reviewer's Revised Recommended Decision in the Matter of Baltimore Upper Shore Cardiac Review (Docket No. 15-02-2360 and 15-02-2361) 
    1. Anne Arundel Medical Center's Response to Recommended Decision 
    2. Baltimore Washington Medical Center's Exceptions to Recommended Decision
    3. Dimensions Health Care's Exceptions to Recommended Decision
    4. MedStar Health's Exceptions to Recommended Decision
    5. Anne Arundel Medical Center's Response to Exceptions on Recommended Decision

6. Reviewer's Recommended Decision in the Matter of Kaiser Permanente Gaithersburg (Docket No. 17-15-2390)

7. Staff Report and Recommendation in the Matter of Stella Maris (Docket No. 16-03-2376)

8. Staff Report and Recommendation in the Matter of MedStar Franklin Square MedicalCenter (Docket No.  16-03-2380)   

9. Staff Report and Recommednation in the Matter of Columbia Surgical Institute, LLC (Docket No. 17-13-2391)

10. Staff Report and Recommendation in the Matter of Riva Road Surgical Center, LLC (Docket No. 17-02-2392

11.  Staff Report and Recommendation in the Matter of Visiting Nurse Association of Maryland, LLC d/b/a VNA of Maryland (Docket No. 17-R1-2393

12.  Staff Report and Recommendation in the Matter of FutureCare-Homewood - (Docket No. 17-24-2396)

13. Staff Report and Recommendation for the Modification of Washington Adventist Hospital - (Docket No. 13-15-2349)

14. Staff Report and Recommendation in the Matter of Presbyterian Senior Living Services, Inc. d/b/a Glen Meadows Retirement Community - (Docket No.  17-03-2395)

15.  Staff Report and Recommendation in the Matter of Bethesda Chevy Chase Surgical Center - (Docket No. 17-15-2401

16.  Staff Report and Recommendation for the Modification of Suburban Hospital - (Docket No. 15-15-2368)

17.  Staff Report and Recommendation for the Modification of Recovery Centers of America at Bracebridge (Earleville) - (Docket No. 15-07-2363

18.  Staff Report and Recommendation for the Modification of Recovery Centers of America-Waldorf - (Docket No. 15-08-2362)

19.  Staff Report and Recommendation in the Matter of Coastal Hospice, Inc. - (Docket No.  17-22-2404)


Last Updated: 4/8/2026