2015 Delaware Code
Title 16 - Health and Safety
CHAPTER 90. HEALTH FACILITIES SUBSIDY FUND
§ 9004 Subsidy contract — Department determination of eligibility.

The Department shall consider each application for a subsidy contract. The Department shall either recommend or disapprove each such application and advise the issuing officers of its decision. No favorable recommendation shall be made by the Department unless the Department shall find and determine that:

(1) The applicant is a health facilities corporation;

(2) The health facilities corporation is in sound financial condition and is reasonably expected to remain in sound financial condition during the term of the subsidy contract;

(3) There exists a need for the health facility for which the subsidy contract is sought, taking into account the existing and planned health facilities in the State; and

(4) The health facilities corporation has a managerial, administrative and medical staff that has conformed, or, in the case of a health facilities corporation that has not commenced operation of a health facility, is reasonably expected to conform to standards of professional integrity and ability that may reasonably be required by the State.

The Department may obtain assistance from other State agencies, from the federal government and from private sources in making the foregoing determinations. The Department may also employ experts to assist it.

16 Del. C. 1953, §§ 9003, 9004; 56 Del. Laws, c. 363; 59 Del. Laws, c. 455, § 4; 64 Del. Laws, c. 463, § 1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 149, § 201.;