French Public Health Code
In forceWhen it holds one or more authorisations for healthcare activities, the Groupement de Coopération Sanitaire is a healthcare establishment with the associated rights and obligations. A health cooperation grouping governed by private law is established as a private health establishment and a health cooperation grouping governed by public law is established as a public health establishment, by decision of the director general of the regional health agency.
When the health cooperation grouping is a public health establishment, the rules of operation and governance of public health establishments apply, subject to the following reservations:
1° The duties of the grouping's director are carried out in addition to the duties of the director referred to in article L. 6143-7 ;
2° The Supervisory Board is composed as follows:
a) Five representatives of the local authorities or their groupings, appointed by the deliberative assemblies of the local authorities or their groupings on whose territory the member establishments are located;
b) Five representatives of the medical and non-medical staff of the health cooperation grouping set up as a public health establishment, including three appointed by the establishment's social committee and two appointed by the establishment's medical committee;
c) Five qualified persons, including two appointed by the Director General of the Regional Health Agency and three, including two user representatives within the meaning of Article L. 1114-1, appointed by the State representative in the department.
By way of derogation from the provisions of the first paragraph, a groupement de coopération sanitaire de moyens whose only authorisation for healthcare activity it holds is an authorisation for the biological activity of medically assisted procreation is not set up as a healthcare establishment.
