IN RE APPEAL OF FOUNDATION HEALTH SYSTEMS CORP

Petree Stockton Robinson, by G. Gray Wilson and Steve M. Pharr, for petitioner-appellee Foundation Health Systems Corporation (Hawthorne Surgical Center). David F. Tamer, Attorney for Forsyth County, P. Eugene Price, Jr., County Attorney, and Tina F. Heelan, Assistant County Attorney, for respondent-appellant Forsyth County. Smith Helms Mullis Moore, by Thomas S. Stukes, Maureen Demarest Murray, and Matthew W. Sawchak, for The North Carolina Hospital Association; C.J. Harris Community Hospital, Incorporated, of Sylva, North Carolina; Community General Hospital of Thomasville, Inc.; Memorial Mission Medical Center, Inc.; The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital; Murphy Medical Center; N.C. Baptist Hospitals, Incorporated; Presbyterian Hospital; Roanoke-Chowan Hospital, Inc.; Union Memorial Hospital, Inc.; Valdese General Hospital, Inc.; Wayne Memorial Hospital, Inc.; and Wesley Long Community Hospital, Inc., amici curiae.