GroundRules
12VAC5-410-1240: Emergency services
Where this section sits in the code
- Title 12. Health
- Agency 5. Department of Health
- Chapter 410. Regulations for the Licensure of Hospitals in Virginia
- Part IV. Organization and Operation of Outpatient Surgical Hospitals
- Article 4. Patient Care Services
A. Each outpatient surgical hospital shall provide emergency service and maintain on the premises adequate monitoring equipment, suction apparatus, oxygen, and related items necessary for resuscitation and control of hemorrhage and other complications.
B. A written agreement which ensures emergency transportation to a licensed general hospital shall be executed with an ambulance service.
C. A written agreement shall be executed with a general hospital to ensure that any patient of the outpatient surgical hospital shall receive needed emergency treatment. The agreement shall be within a licensed general hospital capable of providing full surgical, anesthesia, clinical laboratory, and diagnostic radiology service on 30 minutes notice and which has a physician in the hospital and available for emergency service at all times.
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