* § 231. New York state health service corps. 1. The commissioner
shall establish within the department the New York state health service
corps (hereinafter "corps"). The commissioner shall have central
responsibility for administering the provisions of this title with
respect to increasing the availability of health services in certain
eligible facilities and institutions.

2. For purposes of this title: (a) "health corps professional" means a
nurse, physician's assistant, dental hygienist, occupational therapist,
speech-language pathologist, audiologist, physical therapist, midwife or
such other health professional, other than a physician or dentist, who
is determined by the commissioner, in consultation with the
commissioners of education, correctional services, mental health, mental
retardation and developmental disabilities and the president of the
civil service commission, to possess the skills and training appropriate
to the needs of eligible institutions and facilities;

(b) "eligible institutions and facilities" shall include: (i)
facilities operated by the department of correctional services, office
of mental health and office of mental retardation and developmental
disabilities; (ii) non-profit agencies possessing operating certificates
issued by the office of mental health or office of mental retardation
and developmental disabilities or under contract with the commission for
the blind and visually handicapped; (iii) not-for-profit diagnostic and
treatment centers licensed under article twenty-eight of this chapter
which have a critical shortage of health personnel, as determined by the
commissioner and which serve the medically indigent and medicaid
eligible persons; (iv) AIDS service sites, as defined in this section;
(v) health care facilities operated by the department, provided that at
any time the total number of placements in such facilities shall not
exceed ten percent of the total number of placements under this section;
and (vi) in the case of midwives, not-for-profit facilities licensed
under article twenty-eight of this chapter which serve the medically
indigent and medicaid eligible women;

(c) "president" means the president of the New York state higher
education services corporation.

(d) "AIDS service sites" means health care facilities and non-profit
or public agencies, designated by the commissioner, which provide care
or treatment to persons infected with the human immunodeficiency virus
(HIV) or who have acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and which
are currently experiencing a shortage of health personnel to
specifically serve such person.

* NB Expired July 18, 1996