3701-84-19 Safety standards.

The provider of a solid organ transplant service shall meet the following safety requirements:

(A) Heart or heart-lung transplantation services shall have an active open-heart surgery service that should be performing a minimum of two hundred fifty open heart surgery procedures annually, except that heart or heart-lung transplantation services that only serve pediatric patients less than twenty-two years of age shall have an active pediatric open-heart surgery service that should be performing a minimum of two hundred pediatric open heart surgery procedures annually;

(B) Heart-lung transplantation services shall have an active lung transplant service and an active heart transplant service; and

(C) Bowel transplantation services shall have an active liver transplant service.

Effective: 05/15/2008

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 02/29/2008 and 03/01/2013

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, 6/1/07