Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 310 - Oklahoma State Department of Health
Chapter 505 - Anatomical Gifts
Subchapter 3 - Anatomical Gifts
Section 310:505-3-2 - Procedures for requesting consent for anatomical gift
Current through Vol. 42, No. 1, September 16, 2024
Each general medical surgical hospital with fifty (50) or more licensed beds shall establish written policies and procedures describing:
(1) Who may execute an anatomical gift under the Act;
(2) The classes of persons and priority of the classes of persons who may consent to a request for anatomical gift of a decedent's body or part of a body under the Act;
(3) The names and contact information for all hospital designated requestors and the contact information required to initiate the referral process to the designated OPO, tissue bank, or eye bank if they act as designated requestors for the hospital;
(4) The name and location of the designated OPO for their service area and procedures for how to contact the OPO twenty-four (24) hours a day;
(5) The names and locations of all tissue and eye banks with which the hospital has agreements to cooperate in the retrieval, processing, preservation, storage, and distribution of tissues and eyes;
(6) The methodology for approaching donor families and requesting organ, tissue, or eye donation which encourage discretion and sensitivity with respect to the circumstances, views, and beliefs of the families of potential donors;
(7) How to document a request for anatomical donation and the outcome of the request;
(8) The quality assurance activities used to monitor the identification of potential donors, appropriate requests for consent for anatomical gifts are made, and that outcomes of requests for anatomical gifts are documented.
(9) A method of notifying administrators if other hospital policies, procedures, or processes interfere with the identification or maintenance of potential donors, or in the retrieval of all usable organs, tissues, and eyes.
Added at 18 Ok Reg 1711, eff 5-25-01