Smith Moore LLP, by Maureen Demarest Murray and Susan M. Fradenburg, for petitioner-appellant.
Roy Cooper, Attorney General, by Melissa L. Trippe, Special Deputy Attorney General, for respondent-appellee.
Nelson Mullins Riley Scarborough LLP, by Noah H. Huffstetler, III and Elizabeth B. Frock, for respondent-intervenor-appellee Betsy Johnson Regional Hospital, Inc.; and Bode Call Stroupe, L.L.P., by S. Todd Hemphill, for respondent-intervenor-appellee Amisub of North Carolina, Inc. d/b/a Central Carolina Hospital.