HOSPITAL SYSTEM; ANCILLARY HEALTH CARE SERVICES SYSTEM.

(a) The district shall provide for the establishment of a hospital system by:

(1) purchasing, constructing, acquiring, repairing, or renovating buildings and equipment;

(2) equipping the buildings; and

(3) administering the buildings and equipment for hospital purposes.

(b) The hospital and ancillary health care services systems may include:

(1) facilities and equipment to provide domiciliary care and treatment of the sick or injured;

(2) outpatient clinics;

(3) dispensaries;

(4) geriatric domiciliary care;

(5) convalescent home facilities;

(6) physicians' offices;

(7) home health services;

(8) durable medical equipment;

(9) long-term care;

(10) skilled nursing care;

(11) intermediate nursing care;

(12) hospice care;

(13) ambulatory surgery centers;

(14) urgent care facilities;

(15) rural health clinics;

(16) operation of a mobile emergency medical service;

(17) necessary nurses' domiciliaries and training centers;

(18) blood banks;

(19) research centers or laboratories; and

(20) any other facilities or equipment the board considers necessary to provide hospital and ancillary health care services.