FL S1518

Two or more special districts operating as hospital districts in Florida would be authorized to jointly enter into ventures, partnerships, corporations, joint operating networks, service lines, facilities, or any other joint relationships or collaborations, whether public or private, for-profit or not-for-profit

Governing bodies of the hospital districts must determine that any such joint collaboration is consistent with and in furtherance of the purposes and best interests of the districts

Hospital districts may exercise these joint collaboration powers regardless of competitive consequences, including actions that may be deemed anticompetitive under state and federal antitrust laws

The provisions would supersede any general or special law that is inconsistent or in conflict with the new subsection

The Legislature declares these collaborations a public necessity to ensure the provision of quality health care to district residents and for the preservation of public health and welfare