(a) The district shall provide for the establishment of a hospital system by:
(1) purchasing, constructing, acquiring, repairing, or renovating buildings and equipment;
(2) equipping the buildings; and
(3) administering the buildings and equipment for hospital purposes.
(b) The hospital and ancillary health care services systems may include:
(1) facilities and equipment to provide domiciliary care and treatment of the sick or injured;
(2) outpatient clinics;
(3) dispensaries;
(4) geriatric domiciliary care;
(5) convalescent home facilities;
(6) physicians’ offices;
(7) home health services;
(8) durable medical equipment;
(9) long-term care;
(10) skilled nursing care;
(11) intermediate nursing care;
(12) hospice care;
(13) ambulatory surgery centers;
(14) urgent care facilities;
(15) rural health clinics;
(16) operation of a mobile emergency medical service;
(17) necessary nurses’ domiciliaries and training centers;
(18) blood banks;
(19) research centers or laboratories; and
(20) any other facilities or equipment the board considers necessary to provide hospital and ancillary health care services.