An authority shall constitute a public body and a body corporate and politic, exercising public powers, and having all the powers necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate the purposes and provisions of this chapter, including, but not limited to, the powers to:

(1) Investigate hospital, medical and health conditions and into the means and methods of improving such conditions;
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 7-57-301

  • Bequest: Property gifted by will.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Creating municipality: means any city or metropolitan government having a population of not less than two hundred thousand (200,000), according to the 1970 federal census or any subsequent federal census, or any county in which any such city shall be situated, that shall create an authority pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Federal government: includes the United States or any agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the United States. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • hospital authority: means a public body and a body corporate and public organized in accordance with this chapter for the purposes, with the powers, and subject to the restrictions set forth in this chapter. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
  • hospital project: means and includes any one (1) or more hospitals and related facilities, including, but not limited to, land and interests in land, facilities and equipment for the treatment of all classes of patients, laboratories, clinics, treatment centers, nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, extended care facilities, dormitories, training facilities for medical students, doctors, nurses and all other medical or paramedical personnel, administration and office buildings, garages, parking lots and such other structures, facilities and improvements necessary or convenient to the development and maintenance of hospitals, and for the provision of health care. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
  • Lands: includes lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein, equitable as well as legal. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Participating municipality: means any city, town or county, which city, town or county, pursuant to a resolution of its governing body and an agreement with the creating municipality, shall have sold, leased, dedicated, donated or otherwise conveyed its hospitals to the authority for operation by the authority in order to make such hospital an operational part of its health care system. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
  • Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • State: means the state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
(2) Study and make recommendations concerning the plan of any city or municipality located within its boundaries in relation to the provision of adequate hospital, medical and nursing facilities;
(3) Prepare, carry out and operate hospital projects;
(4) Provide and operate outpatient departments, maternity clinics, decentralized primary health care facilities, and any other clinics customarily operated in or by hospitals in metropolitan centers;
(5) Provide the clinical setting for the teaching and instruction programs of schools for medical students, interns and physicians; and provide teaching and instruction programs for nurses, and all other medical or paramedical personnel;
(6) Provide and maintain continuous resident physician, intern and other medical services;
(7) Establish rates, fees, charges and other compensation to be paid by patients for any services rendered in its hospital facilities;
(8) Participate in any governmental programs, such as medicare and medicaid, and obtain reimbursement under medicare and medicaid for services rendered to patients;
(9) Appoint all administrative, professional, technical and other employees; appoint legal counsel and an auditor; enter into contracts of employment with such employees and appointees and fix their compensation and terms of employment, subject to the budget controls of the creating and participating municipalities; and remove such employees or appointees;
(10) Enter into agreements with the creating municipality and participating municipalities with respect to the manner of transfer of hospital employees of such municipalities to the authority and with respect to the retention by such employees of existing civil service status and accrued pension, disability, hospitalization, death, or other fringe benefits;
(11) Enter into a plan for pension, disability, hospitalization and death benefits for the officers and employees of the authority, either by contract with the creating municipality and participating municipalities, or otherwise;
(12) Adopt necessary rules and regulations for the governance of the authority and its employees, and appoint such committees or subcommittees as it shall deem advisable, and fix their duties and responsibilities;
(13) Subject to the provisions for letting of public contracts as provided in the charter or governing law of the creating municipality, enter into contracts for necessary supplies, equipment or services incident to the operation of its business;
(14) Do all things necessary in connection with the construction, repair, reconstruction, management, supervision, and control of its operation and facilities, including, but not limited to, the hospital and all departments of the hospital;
(15) Accept donations of money, personal property or real estate for the benefit of the authority and take title to the donations from any person, firm, corporation or society desiring to make such donations;
(16) Determine and regulate the conditions under which the privilege of practicing within any hospital operated by the authority may be available to physicians, and promulgate reasonable rules and regulations governing the conduct of physicians and nurses while on duty in the hospital;
(17) Make rules and regulations governing the admission of patients to, and the care, conduct, and treatment of patients in, the hospital;
(18) Determine whether and to what extent patients presented to the hospital for treatment are subjects for financial subsidy because of their income level, family size or other established criteria;
(19) Maintain and operate isolation wards for the care and treatment of mental, contagious or other similar diseases;
(20) Provide for the construction, reconstruction, improvement, alteration or repair of any hospital project or any part of a hospital project, subject to the budget limitations that may be imposed by the creating municipality or any participating municipality;
(21) Act as agent for the federal government in connection with the acquisition, construction, operation or management of a hospital project, or any part of a hospital project;
(22) Arrange with any city or municipality located in whole or in part within its boundaries or with a government for the planning, replanning, furnishing, installing, opening or closing of streets, roads, roadways, alleys, sidewalks, other places or facilities and utilities, or for the acquisition by such city, municipality, or a government of property options or property rights or for the furnishing of property or services in connection with a project;
(23) Arrange with the state, its subdivisions and agencies, and any county, city or municipality of the state, to the extent that it is within the scope of each of their respective functions:

(A) Cause the services customarily provided by each of them to be rendered for the benefit of such hospital authority; and
(B) Lease or rent any of the dwellings or other accommodations or any of the lands, buildings, structures or facilities embraced in any hospital project and establish and revise the rents or charges for the lease or rental;
(24) Purchase, lease, improve, obtain options upon, acquire by gift, grant, bequest, devise, or otherwise any personal property, or any interest in personal property from any person, firm, corporation, city, municipality, or government, for any of the purposes provided for in this chapter;
(25) Sell, exchange, transfer, assign, or pledge any personal property, or any interest in personal property to any person, firm, corporation, municipality, city, or government;
(26) Self-insure or provide for the insurance of the property or operations of the authority against such risks as the authority may deem advisable;
(27) In connection with any loan by a government, agree to limitations upon the exercise of any powers conferred upon the authority by this chapter;
(28) Invest any funds held in reserves or sinking funds, or any temporarily excess funds not required for immediate disbursement, in property or securities in which trustees, guardians, executors, administrators, and others acting in a fiduciary capacity may legally invest funds subject to their control;
(29) Sue and be sued;
(30) Have a seal and alter the seal;
(31) Have perpetual succession; and
(32) Make and execute contracts and other instruments necessary or convenient to the exercise of the powers of the authority.
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