N.Y. Public Health Law § 224-b: Public health and health planning council; powers and duties; health care facilities, home care agencies and hospices

§ 224-b. Public health and health planning council; powers and duties;

health care facilities, home care agencies and hospices. The public

health and health planning council shall have such powers and duties as

are set forth in this chapter, including the consideration of

applications for the establishment and construction of health care

facilities, home care agencies and hospices licensed under articles

twenty-eight, thirty-six or forty of this chapter. In carrying out its

powers and duties, the council shall take into account the impact of its

actions and recommendations on the quality, accessibility, efficiency

and cost-effectiveness of health care throughout the state. The council

shall undertake a comprehensive review of regulations and council

procedures governing the establishment and construction of such health

care facilities, home care agencies and hospices and shall submit to the

commissioner any recommendations for the revisions of such regulations.

Such review shall be conducted every five years, and the first set of

recommendations shall be submitted to the commissioner on or before

December first, two thousand sixteen.