New York Public Health Law Section 231 - New York State Health Service Corps.

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    * § 231.  New  York  state  health service corps. 1. The commissioner
  shall establish within the department the New York state health  service
  corps   (hereinafter  "corps").  The  commissioner  shall  have  central
  responsibility for administering  the  provisions  of  this  title  with
  respect  to  increasing  the  availability of health services in certain
  eligible facilities and institutions.
    2. For purposes of this title: (a) "health corps professional" means a
  nurse, physician's assistant, dental hygienist, occupational  therapist,
  speech-language pathologist, audiologist, physical therapist, midwife or
  such  other  health professional, other than a physician or dentist, who
  is  determined  by  the   commissioner,   in   consultation   with   the
  commissioners of education, correctional services, mental health, mental
  retardation  and  developmental  disabilities  and  the president of the
  civil service commission, to possess the skills and training appropriate
  to the needs of eligible institutions and facilities;
    (b)  "eligible  institutions  and  facilities"  shall   include:   (i)
  facilities  operated  by the department of correctional services, office
  of mental health and office  of  mental  retardation  and  developmental
  disabilities; (ii) non-profit agencies possessing operating certificates
  issued  by  the  office of mental health or office of mental retardation
  and developmental disabilities or under contract with the commission for
  the blind and visually handicapped; (iii) not-for-profit diagnostic  and
  treatment  centers  licensed  under article twenty-eight of this chapter
  which have a critical shortage of health personnel, as determined by the
  commissioner  and  which  serve  the  medically  indigent  and  medicaid
  eligible  persons;  (iv) AIDS service sites, as defined in this section;
  (v) health care facilities operated by the department, provided that  at
  any  time  the  total  number of placements in such facilities shall not
  exceed ten percent of the total number of placements under this section;
  and (vi) in the case of  midwives,  not-for-profit  facilities  licensed
  under  article  twenty-eight  of  this chapter which serve the medically
  indigent and medicaid eligible women;
    (c) "president" means the president  of  the  New  York  state  higher
  education services corporation.
    (d)  "AIDS  service sites" means health care facilities and non-profit
  or public agencies, designated by the commissioner, which  provide  care
  or  treatment  to persons infected with the human immunodeficiency virus
  (HIV) or who have acquired immunodeficiency syndrome  (AIDS)  and  which
  are   currently   experiencing   a   shortage  of  health  personnel  to
  specifically serve such person.
    * NB Expired July 18, 1996

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