{"id":18989,"date":"2013-02-20T03:44:07","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T08:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=18989"},"modified":"2013-02-21T13:46:58","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T18:46:58","slug":"ahca-response-to-requests-about-lehigh-regional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/02\/ahca-response-to-requests-about-lehigh-regional\/","title":{"rendered":"AHCA Response to <br>Requests About Lehigh Regional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/ahca-response-to-requests-about-lehigh-regional\/ahca\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18991\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18991\" title=\"ahca\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ahca.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a>The Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) has responded to requests for information <em><\/em> about the Lehigh Regional Medical Center (LRMC) announced plans.<\/p>\n<p><em><\/em> Two questions were posed to for AHCA concerning LRMC\u2019s Certificate of need (CON) request and\u00a0 how can residents of Lehigh Acres complain to AHCA about losing this facility?<\/p>\n<p>The following is from Shelisha Coleman Press Secretary Agency for Health Care Administration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Comment from AHCA concerning LRMC\u2019s CON request:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Organizations that submit a letter of intent are not required to follow up with an application, so the Agency won\u2019t know until close of business on March 6th\u00a0whether they actually intend to move forward.\u00a0 The Agency is not likely to receive anything but a shell application on March 6, 2013.\u00a0 It is typical for applicants to submit their detailed proposal on the omissions deadline, which will be April 10th\u00a0if they decide to proceed.\u00a0 The Agency will make a decision on June 7, 2013.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How can the residents of Lehigh Acres complain to AHCA about losing this facility?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Agency\u00a0takes\u00a0information from any interested party, either pro or con, until close of business (5 pm) on the omissions deadline (Wednesday, April 10,,\u00a02013).\u00a0 Residents can send letters to Jeff Gregg, Director, Florida Center for Health Information and Policy Analysis &#8211; MS 16, Agency for Health Care Administration, 2727 Mahan Drive, Tallahassee, FL 32308 or email to <a href=\"mailto:jeffrey.gregg@ahca.myflorida.com\" target=\"_blank\">jeffrey.gregg@ahca.myflorida.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) has responded to requests for information about the Lehigh Regional Medical Center (LRMC) announced plans. Two questions were posed to for AHCA concerning&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":18991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}