Vermont Statutes Title 18 Sec. 1805
Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 18 Sec. 1805
- Hospital: includes public health centers and general, tuberculosis, mental, chronic disease, and other type of hospitals and related facilities, such as laboratories, out-patient departments, nurses' homes and training facilities, and central service facilities, operated in connection with hospitals, but does not include any hospital furnishing primarily domiciliary care. See
- Medical facilities: means diagnostic or diagnostic and treatment centers, rehabilitation facilities and nursing homes as those terms are defined in the federal act, and such other medical facilities for which federal aid may be authorized under the federal act. See
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States may apply to the District of Columbia and any territory and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See
§ 1805. Survey and planning activities
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 and medical facility services to all the people of the State. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 27, eff. March 1, 1961; 2023, No. 53, § 68, eff. June 8, 2023.)