§ 35-2-320 — Duties of commissioner

The commissioner is authorized and directed to make an inventory
of existing hospitals and medical facilities, including public,
nonprofit and proprietary hospitals and medical facilities, to
survey the need for construction of hospitals and medical
facilities, and, on the basis of such inventory and survey, to
develop a program for the construction of such public and other
nonprofit hospitals and medical facilities as will, in
conjunction with existing facilities, afford the necessary
physical facilities for furnishing adequate hospital, medical
facility and similar services to all the people of the state.