§ 2825-f. Health care facility transformation program: statewide III.\n1. A statewide health care facility transformation program is hereby\nestablished under the joint administration of the commissioner and the\npresident of the dormitory authority of the state of New York for the\npurpose of strengthening and protecting continued access to health care\nservices in communities. The program shall provide funding in support of\ncapital projects, debt retirement, working capital or other non-capital\nprojects that facilitate health care transformation activities\nincluding, but not limited to, merger, consolidation, acquisition or\nother activities intended to: (a) create financially sustainable systems\nof care; (b) preserve or expand essential health care services; (c)\nmodernize obsolete facility physical plants and infrastructure; (d)\nfoster participation in alternative payment arrangements including, but\nnot limited to, contracts with managed care plans and accountable care\norganizations; (e) for residential health care facilities, increase the\nquality of resident care or experience; or (f) improve health\ninformation technology infrastructure, including telehealth, to\nstrengthen the acute, post-acute and long-term care continuum. Grants\nshall not be available to support general operating expenses. The\nissuance of any bonds or notes hereunder shall be subject to section\nsixteen hundred eighty-r of the public authorities law and the approval\nof the director of the division of the budget, and any projects funded\nthrough the issuance of bonds or notes hereunder shall be approved by\nthe New York state public authorities control board, as required under\nsection fifty-one of the public authorities law.\n 2. The commissioner and the president of the dormitory authority shall\nenter into an agreement, subject to approval by the director of the\nbudget, and subject to section sixteen hundred eighty-r of the public\nauthorities law, for the purposes of awarding, distributing, and\nadministering the funds made available pursuant to this section. Such\nfunds may be distributed by the commissioner for grants to general\nhospitals, residential health care facilities, adult care facilities\nlicensed under title two of article seven of the social services law,\ndiagnostic and treatment centers and clinics licensed pursuant to this\nchapter or the mental hygiene law, children's residential treatment\nfacilities licensed pursuant to article thirty-one of the mental hygiene\nlaw, assisted living programs approved by the department pursuant to\nsection four hundred sixty-one-l of the social services law, and\ncommunity-based health care providers as defined in subdivision three of\nthis section for grants in support of the purposes set forth in this\nsection. A copy of such agreement, and any amendments thereto, shall be\nprovided to the chair of the senate finance committee, the chair of the\nassembly ways and means committee, and the director of the division of\nthe budget no later than thirty days prior to the release of a request\nfor applications for funding under this program. Projects awarded, in\nwhole or part, under sections twenty-eight hundred twenty-five-a and\ntwenty-eight hundred twenty-five-b of this article shall not be eligible\nfor grants or awards made available under this section.\n 3. Notwithstanding section one hundred sixty-three of the state\nfinance law or any inconsistent provision of law to the contrary, up to\nfive hundred twenty-five million dollars of the funds appropriated for\nthis program shall be awarded without a competitive bid or request for\nproposal process for grants to health care providers (hereafter\n"applicants"). Provided, however, that a minimum of: (a) sixty million\ndollars of total awarded funds shall be made to community-based health\ncare providers, which for purposes of this section shall be defined as a\ndiagnostic and treatment center licensed or granted an operating\ncertifi
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