(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