Hearings

(1) If any applicant or owner of a Residential Home for the Aged is dissatisfied with any decision made by the Department or by the Board he has the right to appeal that decision and request a hearing. (2) All such hearings shall be conducted before the Chairman of the Board for Licensing Health Care Facilities, who is now designated by both the Board and the Department to hear such cases and to enter a final judgment in such matters. All such hearings shall be conducted as provided in the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, chapter 5, part 3. (3) The decision of the Chairman of the Board may be appealed to the Chancery Court, as provided in T.C.A. § 4-5-322. (4) Reconsideration and Stays. The Board authorizes the member who chaired the Board for a contested case to be the agency member to make the decisions authorized pursuant to rule 1360-04-01-.18 regarding petitions for reconsiderations and stays in that case.