§ 6 — Purposes of the corporation

§ 6. Purposes of the corporation. The purposes of the corporation are:\n 1. To facilitate the timely provision, acquisition, construction,\nreconstruction, rehabilitation or improvement of health facilities for\nthe prevention, diagnosis or treatment of human disease, pain, injury,\ndeformity or physical condition, at a reasonable cost, in order to\nreduce the time lag between the determination of the need for such\nfacilities and their actual availability for use.\n 2. To assist the department of health, which is the state agency\nhaving the central, comprehensive responsibility for development and\nadministration of the state's policy with respect to hospital and\nrelated services, in the discharge of its duties and responsibilities\nunder article twenty-eight of the public health law.\n 3. To provide mental hygiene facilities, other than community health\nand developmental disabilities facilities, for the care, maintenance and\ntreatment of the mentally disabled, for research and training related\nthereto, and for the members of the staff of state institutions in the\ndepartment and their families, to reduce the time lag between\ndetermination of need for such facilities and actual occupancy thereof,\nto expedite the construction, acquisition, reconstruction,\nrehabilitation or improvement of such facilities, to assure that the\nsame are completed and ready for the purposes intended in the light of\nforeseeable needs, to assure exclusive possession, jurisdiction, control\nand supervision over all mental hygiene facilities in order to\neffectuate the aforesaid purposes and to make such facilities available\nto the appropriate commissioner of the department for use in the care,\nmaintenance and treatment of the mentally disabled.\n 4. To provide community mental health and developmental disabilities\nfacilities for the mentally disabled, for out-patient care and\nshort-term in-patient care, including after care and diagnostic and\nrehabilitative services and training and research, for and at the\nrequest of cities and counties not wholly within a city, authorized to\nprovide community mental health services in accordance with the\nprovisions of article forty-one of title E of the mental hygiene law, to\nreduce the time between determination of the need for such facilities\nand actual occupancy thereof, to expedite the construction, acquisition,\nreconstruction, rehabilitation or improvement of such facilities, to\nassure that the same are completed and ready for the purposes intended\nin the light of current and foreseeable needs, all as approved by the\nappropriate commissioner of the department.\n 5. To provide mental hygiene facilities to be made available under\nlicense or permit from the corporation to voluntary agencies at the\nrequest of the appropriate commissioner of the department in accordance\nwith the provisions of this act for use in providing community mental\nhealth and developmental disabilities services and services in a\nresidential care center for adults.\n 6. To provide office of alcoholism and substance abuse services\nfacilities to be made available under license or permit from the\ncorporation to voluntary agencies at the request of the office in\naccordance with the provisions of this act for use in the conduct of an\nalcoholism or substance abuse treatment program.\n 7. To provide facilities for the department of corrections and\ncommunity supervision.\n