2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 20B - Puerto Rico and Caribbean Cardiovascular Center Corporation (§§ 343 — 343k) › § 343b - Purpose, powers and functions

The Puerto Rico and the Caribbean Cardiovascular Center Corporation shall be the body that shall have the responsibility of framing or executing public policy with regard to the planning, organization, operation and administration of the cardiovascular services to be provided in Puerto Rico. It also shall perform, through its Board of Directors, the coordination needed to attain its ends and purposes with the Department of Health, the Medical Sciences Campus of the University of Puerto Rico, the Medical Services Administration and the private sectors involved in providing cardiovascular services in Puerto Rico:
To these ends, it shall have the following powers and functions:
(a) To prepare an annual operating budget proposal.
(b) To establish the services, units and departments needed for the effective, expeditious, efficient and economical functioning of the Corporation.
(c) To establish and implement adequate mechanisms to guarantee the quality of the services rendered to the patients and the prompt evaluation and correction of any faults or deficiencies that arise in the rendition of such services.
(d) To establish and implement appropriate mechanisms for the evaluation of credentials and for the approval, suspension or revocation of privileges to practice in the Corporation’s facilities.
(e) To adopt an official seal.
(f) To establish its own administrative structure.
(g) To borrow money from any financing source, including private institutions, as well as from the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the Government of the United States.
(h) To have complete control and supervision of all the Corporation’s equipment and facilities acquired and constructed by the Public Buildings Authority including, without being limited thereto, the power to determine the nature and need of all the expenses and the manner they may be incurred, allowed and paid for.
(i) To sue and be sued.
(j) To draft, adopt and amend the rules and regulations needed for its functioning.
(k) To negotiate and enter into all kinds of contracts, documents and other public instruments with persons, firms, corporations, government agencies and other entities to achieve the purposes of this chapter, including the sale of services to private persons or entities, commercial insurance companies, labor unions, prepaid public and private health plans and associations with health plans for health services rendered to them.
(l) To appoint, contract and designate medical personnel to provide direct treatment to patients in the Center.
(m) To purchase all materials, supplies, equipment, spare parts and services that are needed, and to dispose of such materials, supplies and spare parts by sale, transfer or other conveyance to other entities, or by destruction or other means the Corporation may deem most convenient when they no longer serve their purpose.
(n) To enter into agreements, leases, contracts and other necessary instruments with the Department of Health, the Medical Sciences Campus of the University of Puerto Rico and with any other bodies and instrumentalities of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
(o) To request, receive and accept funds and federal, state or any other type of grants.
(p) To carry out on its own or by contracting therefor the construction, improvement, extension, expansion or repair works needed by the Corporation to fulfill its objectives or purposes.
(q) To own, acquire and transfer movable and immovable assets and mortgage or lease any of them with their rights and privileges, within the limits prescribed by law. The faculty to possess movable and immovable assets shall include the right to acquire them by legacy.
(r) To participate with others in a corporation, partnership, joint venture or association of any transaction, business arrangement or agreement for which the participating corporation is entitled to carry out per se.
History —June 30, 1986, No. 51, p. 170, § 3.