95 STAT. 604
PUBLIC LAW 97-35—AUG. 13, 1981 (2) If the Secretary determines that a proposal for a hospital or other station meets the standards of subsection (c), the Secretary shall take such steps, within the amounts available through appropriations, as may be necessary and proper— (A) to operate (or participate or assist in the operation of) the hospital or station by the Service until the transfer is accomplished or financial self-sufficiency is achieved, (B) to bring the hospital or station into compliance with applicable licensure, accreditation, and local medical practice standards, and (C) to provide for such other legal, administrative, personnel, and financial arrangements (including allowing payments made with respect to services provided by the hospital or station to be made directly to that hospital or station) as may be necessary to effect a timely and orderly transfer of such hospital or station (including the land, building, and equipment thereof) from the Service, or for the financial self-sufficiency of the hospital or station, not later than September 30, 1982. (e) There is established, within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health of the Department of Health and Human Services, an identifiable administrative unit which shall have direct responsibility and authority for overseeing the activities under this section. (f) For purposes of this section, a hospital or station cannot be found to be financially self-sufficient if the hospital or station is relsdng, in whole or in part, on direct appropriated funds for its continued operations. CONTINUED CARE FOR MERCHANT SEAMEN HOSPITAUZED IN PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE HOSPITALS
42 USC 249 note.
SEC. 988. (a) The Secretary shall provide, by contract or other arrangement with a Federal entity and without charge but subject to subsection (h), for the continuation of inpatient hospital services (and outpatient services related to the condition of hospitalization) to any individual who— (1) on September 30, 1981, is receiving inpatient hospital services at a Public Health Service hospital on the basis of the entitlement contained in section 322(a) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 249(a)), as such section was in effect on such date, for treatment of a condition, (2) requires continued hospitalization after such date for treatment of that condition (or requires outpatient services related to such condition), and (3) the Secretary determines has no other source of inpatient hospital services available for continued treatment of that condition. (b) Services may not be provided under subsection (a) to an individual after the earlier of— (1) September 30, 1982, (2) the end of the first 60-day consecutive period (beginning after September 30, 1981) during the entire period of which the individual is not an inpatient of a hospital. (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the head of any Federal department or agency which provides, under other authority of law and through federal facilities, inpatient hospital services or outpatient services, or both, is authorized to provide inpatient hospital services (and related outpatient services) to individuals under
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