(20 ILCS 3501/840-20)

Sec. 840-20. It is the intent and purpose of this Act that the exercise by the Authority of the powers granted to it shall be in all respects for the benefit of the people of this State to assist them to provide needed health facilities of the number, size, type, distribution, and operation that will assure admission and care of high quality to all who need it. To this end, the Authority is charged with the responsibility to identify and study all projects which are determined by health planning agencies to be needed but which could not sustain a loan were such to be made to it under this Act. The Authority shall, following such study, formulate and recommend to the General Assembly, such amendments to this and other Acts, and such other specific measures as grants, loan guarantees, interest subsidies or other actions as may be provided for by the State which actions would render the construction and operation of such needed health facility feasible and in the public interest. Further, the Authority may identify and study any laws or regulations which it finds handicaps or bars a needed health facility from participating in the benefits of this Act and may recommend to the General Assembly such actions as will remedy such situation.

(Source: P.A. 97-789, eff. 7-13-12.)