It is found and determined that health planning is essential to promote appropriate access to high quality health services at a reasonable cost and is a precondition to effective public health practice by the department of health; and that health planning is a prerequisite to the effective discharge of the department of health’s certificate of need responsibilities.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-1-1.1
Health planning — Findings
P.L. 1988, ch. 383, § 1.
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