The project's assets were the approvals, known as certificates of need, which entitled the holder to Federal aid.
In that decree Mr. Edwards declared a state moratorium on the certificates of need for new medical construction.
Muhlenberg officials hope the show of support from six ministers of predominantly black churches and a representative of a Hispanic group will influence Len Fishman, State Commissioner of Health and Senior Services, who is expected to decide this year which hospitals will receive so-called certificates of need allowing them to perform heart procedures.
On Tuesday, the State Health Commissioner, Len Fishman, issued the approvals, known as certificates of need, to Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center in New Brunswick for heart and kidney transplants, to Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center in Camden for liver transplants and to Hackensack University Medical Center for kidney transplants, said Anne Weiss, senior assistant health commissioner.
David P. Glasel, JD '69, rejoined Barclay Damon as counsel in the firm's Albany and New York offices, where he advises for-profit and not-for-profit clients on enterprise development, project development, capital financing, certificates of need and licensing, and mergers, acquisitions, and reorganizations.
Prosecutors claimed that Scrushy had agreed to pay over $500,000 of Siegelman's debt, which he accumulated during a failed attempt to bring a state lottery to Alabama, in exchange for a seat on the Certificates of Need Review Board.
Many states in the United States have certificate-of-need (CON) programs designed to restrain health care costs and prevent overutilization of health care resources.
It is one of 37 states with a certificate-of-need program, and unlike some, Virginia's is more than a mere formality.
Supporters of certificate-of-need laws say that allowing hospitals to offer whatever services they want could jeopardize the quality of health care.
Thirty-seven stills still require some approval of specialized services under what are known as certificate-of-need laws, and efforts to eliminate the review process failed in several of those states, including Georgia and Washington, this year.
In some states, for-profit hospital chains like Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corporation have been leading lobbying efforts to rescind certificate-of-need laws because the approval process often represents a barrier in breaking into the market.
