3701-84-18. Facilities - solid organ transplant service  


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  • Each provider of a solid organ transplant service shall have available 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; and

    (H) Electron microscopy.

    (I) Accessible by gurney 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: 8/1/2017
Five Year Review (FYR) Dates: 02/27/2017 and 03/01/2022
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, 6/21/12