NY Pub Auth L § 3555 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBA - Public Authorities Article 10-C - New York Health Care Corporations Title 4 - Roswell Park Cancer Institute Corporation Act 3555 - Special Powers of the Corporation.

§  3555. Special powers of the corporation. In order to effectuate the purposes of  this  title,  the  corporation  shall  have  the  following additional powers:   1.  to  contract  with  the  state to operate, manage, superintend and control the Roswell Park Cancer Institute; and to establish, collect and adjust fees, rentals, and other charges for the  lease  or  sublease  of such  health  facility,  subject  to  the  terms  and  conditions of any contract, lease, sublease or other agreement with the state;   2. to provide health and medical services for the public  directly  or by  agreement  or  lease  with  any  person,  firm  or private or public corporation  or  association  through  or  in  the  facilities  of   the corporation  or  in  other  health  care facilities and to make internal policies governing admissions and health and medical services;   3. to provide and maintain training programs for resident  physicians, post-graduate  clinical  fellows,  graduate  students  and  other allied health professionals;   4. to sponsor and conduct research, educational and training programs;   5. to participate in managed care networks, fee-for-service, and other joint  and  cooperative  arrangements  for  the  provision  of   general comprehensive  and  specialty  health care services, directly or through contract with other service providers or entities including employees or entities of the state;   6.  to  establish  subsidiary  corporations  or  other   entities   in accordance with subdivision ten of this section:  (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.