Florida Statutes 395.2050 – Routine inquiry for organ and tissue donation; certification for procurement activities; death records review
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Terms Used In Florida Statutes 395.2050
- Donor: The person who makes a gift.
- General hospital: means any facility which meets the provisions of subsection (12) and which regularly makes its facilities and services available to the general population. See Florida Statutes 395.002
- hospital: includes a medical office building located on the same premises as a hospital facility, provided the land on which the medical office building is constructed is zoned for use as a hospital; provided the premises were zoned for hospital purposes on January 1, 1992. See Florida Statutes 395.002
- Specialty hospital: means any facility which meets the provisions of subsection (12), and which regularly makes available either:(a) The range of medical services offered by general hospitals but restricted to a defined age or gender group of the population;(b) A restricted range of services appropriate to the diagnosis, care, and treatment of patients with specific categories of medical or psychiatric illnesses or disorders; or(c) Intensive residential treatment programs for children and adolescents as defined in subsection (16). See Florida Statutes 395.002(1) Every general hospital, and every specialty hospital that offers the range of medical services offered by a general hospital but only to a portion of the population restricted by age or gender, licensed under this chapter shall comply with the requirements of s. 765.522 pertaining to requests for organ or tissue donation.(2) Every hospital licensed under this chapter that is engaged in the procurement of organs, tissues, or eyes shall comply with the certification requirements of ss. 765.541–765.546.(3) Each organ procurement organization designated by the federal Health Care Financing Administration and licensed by the state shall conduct an annual death records review in the organ procurement organization’s affiliated donor hospitals. The organ procurement organization shall enlist the services of every Florida licensed tissue bank and eye bank affiliated with or providing service to the donor hospital and operating in the same service area to participate in the death records review.