2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 10-C - New York Health Care Corporations › Title 2 - Nassau Health Care Corporation › 3401 - Legislative Findings and Purpose.

§ 3401. Legislative findings and purpose. The legislature hereby finds
  and declares as follows:
1.  The  needs  of  the  residents of the state of New York and of the
  county of Nassau can best be served  by  a  public  benefit  corporation
  having  the  legal,  financial  and  managerial flexibility to take full
  advantage of opportunities and  challenges  presented  by  the  evolving
  health  care  environment  and to take whatever actions are necessary to
  enable the corporation's continuation as a  system  which  provides  the
  finest possible quality of health care consistent with costs.
2.  In  order  to  accomplish  the purposes recited in this section to
  provide health care services and health facilities for  the  benefit  of
  the  residents  of  the  state  of  New  York  and the county of Nassau,
  including to persons in need of health care services without the ability
  to pay as required by law, a public benefit corporation to be  known  as
  the  Nassau  Health  Care  Corporation  shall be created to provide such
  services and facilities and to otherwise carry out such  purposes;  that
  the  creation  and  operation  of the Nassau health care corporation, as
  hereinafter provided, is in all respects for the benefit of  the  people
  of  the  state  of New York and of the county of Nassau, and is a state,
  county and public purpose; and that the exercise by such corporation  of
  the functions, powers and duties as hereinafter provided constitutes the
  performance of an essential public and governmental function.
3.  As a free-standing public health care provider, the corporation is
  at a competitive disadvantage in the current and  emerging  health  care
  environment,  yet  it cannot become part of a larger system of corporate
  entities while maintaining its public status. Significant investments in
  the public assets of the corporation and its  efforts  to  provide  high
  quality  health  care  services to medically underserved populations are
  jeopardized by the corporation's inability to compete on its own and  by
  potential  limits  on  its  ability to collaborate with other public and
  private providers, entities and individuals. The state  finds  that  the
  benefits of collaboration by the corporation outweigh any adverse impact
  on  competition. The benefits of the corporation's collaborative efforts
  include preserving and expanding needed  health  care  services  in  its
  primary  service area; consolidating unneeded or duplicative health care
  services; enhancing the quality of, and expanding access to, health care
  delivered to  medically  underserved  populations;  lowering  costs  and
  improving  the  efficiency  of the health care services it delivers; and
  achieving improved reimbursement from non-governmental payors. Based  on
  the  findings  contained in this section, the state hereby affirmatively
  expresses a policy to allow the corporation to engage  in  collaborative
  activities  consistent  with  its  health care purposes, notwithstanding
  that those collaborations may have the effect of displacing  competition
  in  the  provision  of  hospital, physician or other health care-related
  services. With respect to the collaborative activities  contemplated  in
  this  section and in subdivision ten of section thirty-four hundred five
  of this title, the corporation and the public or  private  entities  and
  individuals with which it collaborates shall be immunized from liability
  under the federal and state antitrust laws.