3701-84-18 Facilities.

A provider of a solid organ transplant service shall have available at all times adequate facilities and resources for the transplant service. The following shall be available on-site at all times:

(A) Sufficient operating and recovery room resources;

(B) Intensive care facilities allowing reverse isolation;

(C) A dialysis unit:

(D) Sufficient bed capacity to accommodate at least the minimum volume level specified by rule 3701-84-21 of the Administrative Code for the applicable type of solid organ transplantation;

(E) Clinical laboratory services that include facilities for coagulation monitoring and blood bank resources capable of providing at least twenty units of blood, platelets, and fresh blood products on demand;

(F) Microbiology laboratory experienced in processing the pathogens of opportunistic infection;

(G) Physical therapy services;

(H) Electron microscopy; and

(I) The following on-site services shall be accessible by gurney and available at all times:

(1) Angiography;

(2) Cardiac catheterization;

(3) Diagnostic radioisotope scanning;

(4) Endoscopy;

(5) Nuclear medicine;

(6) Routine diagnostic radiology;

(7) Computed tomography;

(8) Bone marrow biopsy;

(9) Diagnostic ultrasound;

(10) Electroencephalography;

(11) Nerve conduction;

(12) Psychometrics;

(13) Pulmonary function; and

(14) Immunofluorescence.

(J) A provider of a solid organ transplant service shall have access to laboratory facilities for histocompatibility testing that are certified by the American society for histocompatibility and immunogenetics at all times.

Effective: 06/21/2012
R.C. 119.032 review dates: 04/05/2012 and 05/01/2017
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: 3702.11, 3702.13
Rule Amplifies: 3702.11, 3702.12, 3702.13, 3702.14, 3702.141, 3702.15, 3702.16, 3702.18, 3702.19, 3702.20
Prior Effective Dates: 3/1/1997, 3/24/03