N.Y. Public Health Law 2803-A – Authority to contract
§ 2803-a. Authority to contract. Hospitals, including hospitals described in subdivision ten of § 1.03 of the mental hygiene law, are hereby authorized, under such rules and regulations as the council may authorize, to enter into contracts and make arrangements among themselves and among other municipal, state, federal or privately owned hospitals, or any medical schools, or other health related facilities having or utilizing hospital services or facilities or voluntary ambulance services registered or certified pursuant to Article 30 of the public health law or nutrition programs that receive federal, state or local government funding, whether or not located in this state or elsewhere, for the
Terms Used In N.Y. Public Health Law 2803-A
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Hospital: means a facility or institution engaged principally in providing services by or under the supervision of a physician or, in the case of a dental clinic or dental dispensary, of a dentist, or, in the case of a midwifery birth center, of a midwife, for the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of human disease, pain, injury, deformity or physical condition, including, but not limited to, a general hospital, public health center, diagnostic center, treatment center, a rural emergency hospital under 42 USC 1395x(kkk), or successor provisions, dental clinic, dental dispensary, rehabilitation center other than a facility used solely for vocational rehabilitation, nursing home, tuberculosis hospital, chronic disease hospital, maternity hospital, midwifery birth center, lying-in-asylum, out-patient department, out-patient lodge, dispensary and a laboratory or central service facility serving one or more such institutions, but the term hospital shall not include an institution, sanitarium or other facility engaged principally in providing services for the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of mental disability and which is subject to the powers of visitation, examination, inspection and investigation of the department of mental hygiene except for those distinct parts of such a facility which provide hospital service. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2801
- Personal property: All property that is not real property.
1. mutual use, or exchange of medical resources including, but not limited to, real or personal property or employment of personnel;
2. joint purchases of goods, supplies and services; or
3. development of medical information, techniques and facilities useful in the progress of the medical art; reduction of medical costs and promotion of a more efficient and effective approach to the delivery of health care services.
Any contract between any such hospitals and such voluntary ambulance services shall be limited to joint purchases of goods and supplies necessary for the support of such ambulance services or otherwise used by such hospitals.