3555 - Special powers of the corporation.
§ 3555. Special powers of the corporation. In order to effectuate the purposes of this title, the corporation shall have the following additional powers: 1. to contract with the state to operate, manage, superintend and control the Roswell Park Cancer Institute; and to establish, collect and adjust fees, rentals, and other charges for the lease or sublease of such health facility, subject to the terms and conditions of any contract, lease, sublease or other agreement with the state; 2. to provide health and medical services for the public directly or by agreement or lease with any person, firm or private or public corporation or association through or in the facilities of the corporation or in other health care facilities and to make internal policies governing admissions and health and medical services; 3. to provide and maintain training programs for resident physicians, post-graduate clinical fellows, graduate students and other allied health professionals; 4. to sponsor and conduct research, educational and training programs; 5. to participate in managed care networks, fee-for-service, and other joint and cooperative arrangements for the provision of general comprehensive and specialty health care services, directly or through contract with other service providers or entities including employees or entities of the state; 6. to establish subsidiary corporations or other entities in accordance with subdivision ten of this section: (a) to meet the demands of health care delivery changes; and (b) to market, manufacture or develop products or services developed by the corporation's clinical and research activities; 7. to affiliate with a medical college or colleges; 8. to contract to use employees, agents, consultants and facilities of the state, paying the state its agreed proportion of the compensation or costs pursuant to an agreement with the state; 9. to determine the conditions under which a physician may be extended the privilege of practicing within a health facility under the jurisdiction of the corporation, to promulgate internal policies for the conduct of all persons, physicians and allied health practitioners within such facility, and to appoint and grant privileges to qualified and competent clinical practitioners; and 10. except as provided in this subdivision or as expressly limited by any applicable state law or regulation, and in support of the powers granted by subdivisions five and six of this section, to form and to participate in the formation of one or more corporations, and to exercise and perform such purposes, powers, duties, functions or activities through one or more subsidiary corporations or other entities owned or controlled wholly or in part by the corporation, which shall be formed pursuant to the business corporation law, the limited liability company law, the not-for-profit corporation law, or the partnership law; any such subsidiary may be authorized to act as a general or limited partner in a partnership or as a member of a limited liability company, and enter into an arrangement calling for an initial and subsequent payment or payments or contributions to capital by such subsidiary in consideration of an interest in revenues or other contractual rights. An entity shall be deemed a subsidiary corporation whenever and so long as (a) more than half of any voting shares or other membership interest of such subsidiary are owned or held by the corporation or (b) a majority of the directors, trustees or members of such subsidiary are designees of the corporation. 11. No subsidiary of the corporation shall own, operate, manage or control the existing research, education, acute inpatient or outpatientfacilities and services now operated by the Roswell Park Cancer Institute.