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a minimum, require:

(i) Notification to the receiving hospital before the
transfer and confirmation by that hospital that the patient meets
that hospital's admissions criteria relating to appropriate bed,
physician, and other services necessary to treat the patient;

(ii) The use of medically appropriate life-support
measures that a reasonable and prudent physician exercising
ordinary care would use to stabilize the patient before transfer
and to sustain the patient during the transfer;

(iii) The provision of appropriate personnel and
equipment that a reasonable and purdent physician exercising
ordinary care would use for the transfer; and

(iv) The transfer of all necessary records for
continuing the care for the patient.

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Error: Misnomer and extraneous punctuation in §
19-308.2(a)(2).

Occurred: Ch. 849, Acts of 1986.

19-310.

(b) (1) In accordance with [§§ 5-202 and 5-203] § 5-202 of
this article, when an individual dies in a hospital, the hospital
administrator or a designee of the hospital administrator shall
request, with sensitivity, in the order of stated priority, that
the individual's representative consent to the donation of all or
any of the decedent's organs or tissues as an anatomical donation
if suitable.

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Error: Obsolete cross-reference in § 19-310(b)(l) of
the Health - General Article.

Occurred: § 5-203 of the Health - General Article was
repealed by Ch. 327, Acts of 1982.

(e) After consultation with the Maryland Hospital
Association, INC., the Maryland Organ Procurement Center, the
Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland, the
Maryland Tissue [Bank] BANK, Inc., the Health Facilities
Association of Maryland, and Tissue Banks International, the
Secretary shall publish guidelines designed to facilitate
implementation of this section, including guidelines for
recording objections under subsection (b) of this section.

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