Alacare: Alacare gets approval for $7M inpatient facility in Hoover

Alacare Home Health and Hospice has been issued a certificate of need to move forward with its $7 million, 14-bed inpatient facility planned in Hoover. The company filed plans for the facility with the State Health Planning and Development Agency last April, but ran into opposition on the project from Minnesota-based Optum Pallative and Hospice Care, which had opened a 10-bed inpatient facility at St. Martin's in the Pines in 2014. Optum had also opposed plans for a smaller inpatient facility put...