Washington § 70.40.060 - Development of program for construction of facilities needed.

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§ 70.40.060. Development of program for construction of facilities needed.

The secretary 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.
[ 1979 c 141 s 99; 1959 c 252 s 6; 1949 c 197 s 6; Rem. Supp. 1949 s 6090-65.]

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