N.Y. Public Health Law § 2871: Policy and purposes of article

§ 2871. Policy and purposes of article. Many hospitals and other

health facilities throughout the state are becoming obsolete and are no

longer adequate to meet the needs of modern medicine. As a result of

rapid technological changes, such facilities require substantial

structural or functional changes. Others are unsuited for continued use

by virtue of their location and the physical characteristics of their

existing plants and should be replaced. Such inadequate and outmoded

facilities deny to the people of the state the benefits of health care

of the highest quality, efficiently and promptly provided at a

reasonable cost. Their replacement and modernization is essential to

protect and prolong the lives of the state's population and cannot

readily be accomplished by the ordinary unaided operation of private

enterprise.

It is the purpose of this article to encourage the timely construction

and modernization, including the equipment, of hospital and other health

facilities, which are necessary for the diagnosis or treatment of human

disease, pain, injury, disability, deformity or physical condition, and

of facilities incidental or appurtenant thereto, with mortgage loan

participation by the New York state housing finance agency, all in

furtherance of article seventeen of the constitution. It is hereby

declared to be the policy of the state to encourage the provision of

modern, well-equipped health facilities, and such provision is hereby

declared to be a public use and purpose.