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      "ARKANSAS HEALTH SERVICES COMMISSION, et al. v. AREA AGENCY ON AGING OF WESTERN ARKANSAS"
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        "text": "Dale Price, Justice.\nThis case concerns an application by the appellee, Area Agency on Aging (AAA), for permits to conduct home health care services in five western Arkansas counties. The application was made to the appellant Arkansas Health Services Agency (Agency). The Agency recommended to the Arkansas Health Services Commission (Commission) that the application be denied. The trial court ruled that, because the Agency failed to submit its recommendation to the Commission within 90 days, as required by Ark. Code Ann. \u00a7 20-8-104(d) (Supp. 1989), the application must be automatically approved. The Agency and the Commission appeal from that ruling. We find no error and affirm.\nThe parties agree that AAA\u2019s application was formally received by the Agency on July 30,1987. Shortly thereafter, the Agency suggested that AAA agree to a delay in the consideration of its application to allow the Commission to review, and possibly revise, its standards used in reviewing these types of applications. On October 9,1987,71 days after the application was received, a representative of AAA agreed by letter to a postponement of any decision on its application. The pertinent part of the letter reads as follows:\nI respectfully request that your office postpone making a decision on our applications for certificate of need . . . until the newly formed Health Services Commission has an opportunity to review and amend the determination of need standards.\nThe Commission met on February 17,1988, and decided not to revise its standards. Eighty-three days later, on May 11,1988, the Agency notified AAA that it would recommend denial of its application. However, as the appellants acknowledge, this recommendation was not formally submitted to the Commission until May 18, 1988, which was the 91st day after the Commission\u2019s decision not to revise its standards.\nOnce the Commission denied AAA\u2019s application, AAA pursued an administrative appeal before the Commission. A hearing was held, and the primary topic of discussion was whether there in fact existed a need for AAA\u2019s services in western Arkansas. At the end of the hearing, AAA, for the first time, broached the subject of the 90 day period. No decision was sought from the Commission on the effect of the Agency\u2019s failure to submit a recommendation within 90 days. Instead, AAA indicated only that the issue would be pursued at some future time; it merely requested that it be allowed to determine for the record the precise date from which the 90 days would be counted. The Commission made no ruling on this issue, but did reaffirm its decision denying the appellee\u2019s application.\nAppeal was then taken by AAA to the Sebastian County Circuit Court. Three grounds for relief were alleged in the complaint: (1) the Commission\u2019s action was not supported by substantial evidence, (2) the action was arbitrary and capricious, and (3) the action violated Arkansas law in that the Agency\u2019s recommendation was not submitted to the Commission within 90 days of receipt of AAA\u2019s application.\nThe court ruled that the appellee\u2019s application must be approved because the Agency failed to follow the 90-day rule set out in Ark. Code Ann. \u00a7 20-8-104(d) (Supp. 1989):\nThe Health Services Agency shall review all applications for permits of approval and submit their recommendation for action to the commission within ninety (90) days of receipt of the application for permit of approval, without which the application shall be deemed approved.\nThe court reasoned that since 71 days had passed before AAA agreed to a postponement on October 9, the Agency had only 19 days after the Commission\u2019s February 17 decision in which to make its recommendation. Since the Agency did not act within that time period, the court ruled that AAA\u2019s application must be automatically approved. The Agency and Commission appeal from that ruling.\nIt is claimed that AAA was barred from raising the 90-day issue in the circuit court because it did not first present the issue to the Commission for determination. Indeed, we have recognized that an issue must be raised at the administrative level before it can be considered on appeal to the circuit court. Alcoholic Beverage Control Division v. Barnett, 285 Ark. 189, 685 S.W.2d 511 (1985); Arkansas Cemetery Bd. v. Memorial Properties, Inc., 271 Ark. 172, 616 S.W.2d 713 (1981). However, the appellants did not object below to the circuit court\u2019s consideration of this issue. This argument is being made by the appellants for the first time on appeal and therefore we do not consider it. Reed v. Alcoholic Beverage Control Division, 295 Ark. 9, 746 S.W.2d 368 (1988).\nBy the terms of the waiver, the Agency had 90 days from the date of the Commission\u2019s decision in which to submit its recommendation. Since the recommendation was not submitted until the 91st day after the decision, the trial court was correct in ordering the automatic approval of AAA\u2019s application. Although the trial court did not employ this line of reasoning, we will affirm if the correct result is reached. Ratliff v. Moss, 284 Ark. 16, 678 S.W.2d 369 (1984).\nAffirmed.",
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        "author": "Dale Price, Justice."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Steve Clark, Att\u2019y Gen., by: Theodore Holder, Asst. Att\u2019y Gen., for appellant.",
      "Warner and Smith, by: P.K. Holmes III, for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "ARKANSAS HEALTH SERVICES COMMISSION, et al. v. AREA AGENCY ON AGING OF WESTERN ARKANSAS\n90-37\n792 S.W.2d 321\nSupreme Court of Arkansas\nOpinion delivered July 9, 1990\nSteve Clark, Att\u2019y Gen., by: Theodore Holder, Asst. Att\u2019y Gen., for appellant.\nWarner and Smith, by: P.K. Holmes III, for appellee."
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