P.R. Laws tit. 24, § 342n
The Board shall carry out a periodic evaluation of the services required and needed by the institutions located on the grounds of the Medical Center for the purpose of determining the need to conduct the reorganization of the services as the need may arise due to technological, scientific, demographic and social changes, taking into consideration the need for maintaining the excellence and efficiency of the medical services rendered in the Administration and in the consumer institutions and maximizing the use of the resources. Said evaluation shall be conducted as frequently as not less than every five (5) years as of the reorganization provided by § 342n-1 of this title. The Board and the consumer institutions shall render a report and their recommendations to the Governor and to the Legislature regarding any other organizational restructuring that may be convenient not later than one hundred and eighty (180) days after the close of the fiscal year in which the evaluation is initiated. Provided, That the Governor shall approve those services of the Administration that it may want to centralize, realign and reorganize in the future.
Furthermore Provided, That such determinations shall be based in feasibility studies that give due consideration to the objectives of the Medical Center.
History —June 22, 1978, No. 66, p. 203, § 15; Nov. 11, 1978, No. 3, p. 671, § 1; July 9, 1985, No. 99, p. 321, § 11; Sept. 7, 2005, No. 112, § 1.