As expected, opponents of a $1 billion expansion at Boston Children’s Hospital have filed an administrative appeal of the state’s approval of the project.
The Public Health Council gave the expansion a green light with a 10-0 vote Oct. 20, incorporating into its approval conditions aimed at ensuring access for Medicaid patients and preventing increases in health spending.
With a legal challenge, rallies, an online petition and other measures, a group seeking to preserve a popular healing garden on hospital grounds, the Prouty Garden, has fought the expansion. The group filed an appeal Thursday with the state’s Health Facilities Appeals Board and plans to appeal the approval in Suffolk Superior Court by the end of the month as well.
The appeal argues that health officials “deferred essential decisions” until after construction and that a condition requiring post-construction reporting and monitoring is an inadequate safeguard.
