Proposed Amendments to the State Board of Health Rules

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A public hearing will be held for the following proposed amendment(s) as part of the regular State Board of Health meeting on June 12, 2008. The meeting begins at 11:00 a.m. in Room 307 of the State Department of Health building. 

OAC 310:667, Hospital Standards
The proposed amendments create a new section of rule within Subchapter 59. Classification of Hospital Emergency Services to establish classification standards for "Primary Stroke Centers" and Secondary Stroke Centers." These standards are intended to stratify hospitals into those hospitals capable of administering an intravenous thrombolytic agent within three hours of the onset of ischemic stroke symptoms and those hospitals that are not able to provide this therapeutic intervention for stroke.

The rules allow OSDH to recognize verification as a Primary Stroke Center by The Joint Commission for the purposes of state classification. The proposed rule requires a Primary Stroke Center to provide an organized emergency department with a physician on call and immediately available; an identified stroke team with documented response time criteria; standard practice protocols specifying the appropriate administration of an FDA-approved thrombolytic agent within sixty minutes of the arrival of the patient at the emergency department; the availability of computerized tomography diagnostic imaging services and certain laboratory services twenty-four hours a day; as well as the availability of certain supplies and equipment.

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Recently Adopted Amendments to the State Board of Health Rules