3555 - Special Powers of the Corporation.

NY Pub Auth L § 3555 (2019) (N/A)
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(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; 7. to affiliate with a medical college or colleges; 8. to contract to use employees, agents, consultants and facilities of the state, paying the state its agreed proportion of the compensation or costs pursuant to an agreement with the state; 9. 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, to promulgate internal policies for the conduct of all persons, physicians and allied health practitioners within such facility, and to appoint and grant privileges to qualified and competent clinical practitioners; 10. except as provided in this subdivision or as expressly limited by any applicable state law or regulation, and in support of the powers granted by subdivisions five and six of this section, to form and to participate in the formation of one or more corporations, and to exercise and perform such purposes, powers, duties, functions or activities through one or more subsidiary corporations or other entities owned or controlled wholly or in part by the corporation, which shall be formed pursuant to the business corporation law, the limited liability company law, the not-for-profit corporation law, or the partnership law; 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 or payments or contributions to capital by such subsidiary in consideration of an interest in revenues or other contractual rights. An entity shall be deemed a subsidiary corporation whenever and so long as (a) more than half of any voting shares or other membership interest of such subsidiary are owned or held by the corporation or (b) a majority of the directors, trustees or members of such subsidiary are designees of the corporation; 11. to take all necessary and appropriate steps and arrangements to develop a plan and, on or before January first, two thousand fourteen, seek the necessary approvals to execute such plan which may include but are not limited to entering into arrangements, mergers or other affiliations with one or more health care, academic or other entities for the purposes of protecting and promoting the health of the patients served by its health facilities, advancing the corporation's mission of conducting innovative research into the causes and treatment of cancer, securing its financial viability and achieving operational and fiscal independence from the state, and to the extent possible, contributing to the economic revitalization of the region; provided that the commissioner of health shall monitor such steps and arrangements and participate with the corporation in establishment of goals and benchmarks for the achievement of such independence, and the corporation shall make requests for assistance and approvals needed to execute such steps and arrangements. 12. No subsidiary of the corporation shall own, operate, manage or control the existing research, education, acute inpatient or outpatient facilities and services now operated by the Roswell Park Cancer Institute.