231 - New York State Health Service Corps.

NY Pub Health L § 231 (2019) (N/A)
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(b) "eligible institutions and facilities" shall include: (i) facilities operated by the department of correctional services, office of mental health and office of mental retardation and developmental disabilities; (ii) non-profit agencies possessing operating certificates issued by the office of mental health or office of mental retardation and developmental disabilities or under contract with the commission for the blind and visually handicapped; (iii) not-for-profit diagnostic and treatment centers licensed under article twenty-eight of this chapter which have a critical shortage of health personnel, as determined by the commissioner and which serve the medically indigent and medicaid eligible persons; (iv) AIDS service sites, as defined in this section; (v) health care facilities operated by the department, provided that at any time the total number of placements in such facilities shall not exceed ten percent of the total number of placements under this section; and (vi) in the case of midwives, not-for-profit facilities licensed under article twenty-eight of this chapter which serve the medically indigent and medicaid eligible women;

(c) "president" means the president of the New York state higher education services corporation.

(d) "AIDS service sites" means health care facilities and non-profit or public agencies, designated by the commissioner, which provide care or treatment to persons infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or who have acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and which are currently experiencing a shortage of health personnel to specifically serve such person. * NB Expired July 18, 1996