Section 2871. Policy and purposes of article

Many hospitals and other
  health facilities throughout the state are becoming obsolete and are  no
  longer  adequate  to  meet  the needs of modern medicine. As a result of
  rapid  technological  changes,  such  facilities   require   substantial
  structural or functional changes.  Others are unsuited for continued use
  by  virtue  of  their location and the physical characteristics of their
  existing plants and should be replaced.  Such  inadequate  and  outmoded
  facilities  deny  to the people of the state the benefits of health care
  of  the  highest  quality,  efficiently  and  promptly  provided  at   a
  reasonable  cost.    Their replacement and modernization is essential to
  protect and prolong the lives  of  the  state's  population  and  cannot
  readily  be  accomplished  by  the ordinary unaided operation of private
  enterprise.
    It is the purpose of this article to encourage the timely construction
  and modernization, including the equipment, of hospital and other health
  facilities, which are necessary for the diagnosis or treatment of  human
  disease,  pain, injury, disability, deformity or physical condition, and
  of facilities incidental or  appurtenant  thereto,  with  mortgage  loan
  participation  by  the  New  York  state  housing finance agency, all in
  furtherance of article seventeen  of  the  constitution.  It  is  hereby
  declared  to  be  the  policy of the state to encourage the provision of
  modern, well-equipped health facilities, and such  provision  is  hereby
  declared to be a public use and purpose.