2019 New York Laws
PBA - Public Authorities
Article 10-C - New York Health Care Corporations
Title 5 - Clifton-Fine Health Care Corporation
3606 - Special Powers of the Corporation.

§  3606. Special powers of the corporation. In order to effectuate the
purposes of  this  title,  the  corporation  shall  have  the  following
additional  powers,  except  as limited by this title, the public health
law, the mental hygiene law, the social services law, the education  law
and any other applicable law or regulation:
  1.  To  operate,  manage,  superintend and control any health facility
under its jurisdiction and to repair, maintain and otherwise keep up any
such health  facility;  and  to  establish,  collect  and  adjust  fees,
rentals,  and  other charges for the sale, lease or sublease of any such
health facility, subject to the terms and conditions  of  any  contract,
lease, sublease or other agreement with the towns;
  2.  To  provide health and medical services for the public directly or
by agreement or lease  with  any  person,  firm  or  private  or  public
corporation  or  association  through or in the health facilities of the
corporation  or  otherwise  and  to  make  internal  policies  governing
admissions  and  health  and medical services; and to establish, collect
and adjust fees and other charges for the provision of such  health  and
medical  services;  and  to  provide and maintain resident physician and
intern  medical  services;  and  to  sponsor   and   conduct   research,
educational and training programs;
  3.  To  provide  uncompensated  care to persons in need of health care
services without the ability to pay;
  4. (a) To provide, maintain and operate a medical  transport  service,
provided,  however,  nothing  herein shall prohibit the corporation from
adopting a schedule of charges for medical transport;
  (b) For purposes of section three thousand eight of the public  health
law,  the  corporation  shall  be  deemed  to  be a municipality for the
purposes of determining a public need to operate an ambulance service;
  5. To enter into contracts, leases, subleases and other agreements for
the purpose of affiliating with a medical college  in  conjunction  with
the  corporation's  health  facilities, which agreements may provide for
the  management,  operation  and  staffing  of  health  facilities,  the
reconstruction,   renovation  or  addition  to  health  facilities;  the
provision of necessary facilities,  utilities  and  services;  and  such
other  conditions  or features necessary and proper for such purpose and
for the public health and general welfare;
  6. To determine the conditions under which a physician may be extended
the  privilege  of  practicing  within  a  health  facility  under   the
jurisdiction  of  the corporation, and to promulgate reasonable internal
policies for the conduct of all persons, physicians  and  nurses  within
such facility;
  7. To participate in managed care networks, fee-for-service, and other
joint   and  cooperative  arrangements  for  the  provision  of  general
comprehensive and specialty health care services,  directly  or  through
contract with other service providers or entities including employees or
entities of the state;
  8.   To   establish  subsidiary  corporations  or  other  entities  in
accordance with subdivision nine of this section:
  (a) to meet the demands of health care delivery changes; and
  (b) to market, manufacture or develop products or  services  developed
by the corporation's clinical and research activities;
  9. (a) To form or participate in the formation of one or more entities
pursuant  to the business corporation law, the limited liability company
law, the not-for-profit corporation law, or the partnership law in order
to effectuate the purposes and powers of subdivisions seven and eight of
this section.
  (b) No subsidiary of the corporation shall  own,  operate,  manage  or
control  the  existing  acute  inpatient  and  outpatient facilities and
services now in operation on the grounds of the Clifton-Fine Hospital.
  (c)  Any  such  subsidiary  may  be  authorized to act as a general or
limited partner in a partnership or as a member of a  limited  liability
company,  and  enter  into  an  arrangement  calling  for an initial and
subsequent payment by such subsidiary in consideration of an interest in
revenues or other contractual rights.