Case Name: Joseph HEAD, Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2005-03-11
Citations: 895 So. 2d 536
Docket Number: No. 1D04-1897
Parties: Joseph HEAD, Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, Appellee.
Judges: ALLEN, VAN NORTWICK and PADOVANO, JJ., Concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 895
Pages: 536–537

Head Matter:
Joseph HEAD, Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, Appellee.
No. 1D04-1897.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
March 11, 2005.
Cynthia A. Mikos of Cynthia A. Mikos, P.A., Tampa, for Appellant.
Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General and Charles M. Fahlbusch, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Ft. Lauderdale, for Appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
This is an appeal from a final order of the Department of Children and Family-Services reducing nursing care services provided under a medical assistance program. The Department determined that the appellant was not entitled to twenty-four-hour residential nursing care, based on a finding that it was not medically necessary, and reduced his nursing care to two hours per day. We conclude that the order is not supported by competent substantial evidence and therefore we reverse with instructions to reinstate twenty-four: hour residential nursing care services. The appellant's pediatrician and the registered nurse who treated him both testified that he was in need of continuous nursing care. This conclusion was supported, as well, by all of the other medical and lay witnesses who had first-hand knowledge of the appellant's medical condition.
Reversed.
ALLEN, VAN NORTWICK and PADOVANO, JJ., Concur.