The department shall make an inventory of existing hospitals, including public, nonprofit, and proprietary hospitals, to survey the need for construction of hospitals, and, on the basis of the inventory and survey, shall develop a program for the construction of public and other nonprofit hospitals as will, in conjunction with existing facilities, afford the necessary physical facilities for furnishing adequate hospital, clinic, and similar services to all the people of the state.
(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 9. Effective January 1, 1996.)