Case Name: Adenike ADEBIYI, Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, BOARD OF NURSING, Appellee.
Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2018-06-13
Citations: 244 So. 3d 335
Docket Number: No. 4D17–3852
Parties: Adenike ADEBIYI, Appellant,
v.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, BOARD OF NURSING, Appellee.
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 244
Pages: 335–336

Head Matter:
Adenike ADEBIYI, Appellant,
v.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, BOARD OF NURSING, Appellee.
No. 4D17-3852
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
[June 13, 2018]
Adenike Adebiyi, Coral Gables, pro se.
Katelyn R. Boswell, Assistant General Counsel, Florida Department of Health, Tallahassee, for appellee.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
We reverse the final order of the Board of Nursing suspending appellant's nursing license because the board issued the order pursuant to an informal hearing when a formal hearing was required. When it became apparent in the informal hearing that the appellant disputed the underlying facts of the proceeding, a formal hearing should have been convened. See § 120.57(1), Fla. Stat. (2017) ; DeRosa v. State, Dep't of Fin. Servs. , 175 So.3d 946 (Fla. 4th DCA 2015) ; Campbell v. Dep't of Bus. & Prof'l Regulation , Div. of Real Estate , 868 So.2d 1265, 1266 (Fla. 4th DCA 2004). Although appellee contends that appellant waived her right to a formal hearing, there is no written or oral waiver from appellant in the record-only emails from appellee's counsel assuming that appellant waived her right to a formal hearing. No election of an informal hearing is in the record, but there is a handwritten note from appellant stating that she wished to have a hearing to present her case; thus, this indicates appellant disputed the facts surrounding the Department's proposed suspension.
Reversed and remanded for a formal hearing.
Warner, Gross and Taylor, JJ., concur.