P.R. Laws tit. 24, § 10034
(a) The Regional Academic Medical Centers shall be the entities in each region established by law in charge of implementing the provisions of this chapter. To those ends they shall have the following powers and functions that shall rest with their Board of Directors:
(1) Establish the directives for dealing with relevant matters and situations so that the Regional Academic Medical Centers may operate as a comprehensive public health system.
(2) Define and periodically evaluate the public policy as well as the purposes and objectives of the Regional Academic Medical Centers as a comprehensive public health system.
(3) Negotiate and execute contracts with health institutions that meet the minimum requirements for belonging to a Regional Academic Medical Center through affiliation agreements. These include hospitals and other medical facilities, for example, outpatient clinics, private medical offices, treatment centers and others.
(4) Adopt, modify and use an official seal.
(5) Ensure that the Regional Academic Medical Center establishes an administrative and financial structure that will allow the latter to manage its funds and collections, administer cash and make disbursements.
(b) The Regional Academic Medical Centers shall have the following powers and functions:
(1) Sue and be sued.
(2) Solicit, accept and receive federal, Commonwealth and municipal donations and those of any other kind.
(3) Establish the standards for appointing, contracting and compensating their personnel.
(4) Negotiate and execute all types of contracts, documents and other public instruments with juridical persons and entities.
(5) Acquire, for their corporate ends, goods by purchase, donation, concession or legacy; possess and exercise all property rights over these and provide agreements with the terms and conditions their Board of Directors may determine.
(6) Carry out all acts necessary and convenient to achieve the purposes of this chapter, except that the Regional Academic Medical Centers shall have no power to pledge the credit of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or of any of its political subdivisions.
(7) Approve, amend and repeal regulations to govern the affairs and activities of the Regional Academic Medical Centers and to prescribe the rules and norms needed to comply with its functions and duties, pursuant to what is established in §§ 2101 et seq. of Title 3, known as the “Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Uniform Administrative Procedures Act”, regarding those functions that are directly relevant to the relationship of the Regional Academic Medical Centers and the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
(8) Order all those studies needed to comply with the mandate of this chapter.
History —July 27, 2006, No. 136, § 6.