2023 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.