California Health and Safety Code

§ 101983

HSC § 101983 Effective Jan 1, 2000Div. 101 · Part 6 · Ch. 1

Statute text

The Legislature finds and declares that, while there continues to be a need to focus on the deficiencies in the health care system and on corrective reform measures that might be taken, there is also need for focus on the enhancement of its strengths. Existing philanthropic support for health facilities and clinics is a strength that must be preserved and enhanced under any reform measure for all of the following reasons:

(a)Philanthropy imbues members of the community with a sense of pride in their voluntary nonprofit health facilities and clinics and creates a setting in which members of the community are willing to devote time and effort to improve health care available in the community in a way that government regulation could never replace.

(b)Philanthropy allows voluntary nonprofit institutions to conduct research and to engage in other innovative efforts to improve health care in California.

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Legislative history

Added by renumbering Section 101805 by Stats. 1999, Ch. 950, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 2000.