N.Y. Public Health Law § 231: New York state health service corps

* § 231. New York state health service corps. 1. The commissioner

shall establish within the department the New York state health service

corps (hereinafter "corps"). The commissioner shall have central

responsibility for administering the provisions of this title with

respect to increasing the availability of health services in certain

eligible facilities and institutions.

2. For purposes of this title: (a) "health corps professional" means a

nurse, physician's assistant, dental hygienist, occupational therapist,

speech-language pathologist, audiologist, physical therapist, midwife or

such other health professional, other than a physician or dentist, who

is determined by the commissioner, in consultation with the

commissioners of education, correctional services, mental health, mental

retardation and developmental disabilities and the president of the

civil service commission, to possess the skills and training appropriate

to the needs of eligible institutions and facilities;

(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