(a) Supportive services within the hospital shall include the following, which shall be provided 24 hours per day and shall be either available or onsite, as noted:
- (1) Medicine (cardiology onsite; availability of nuclear cardiology; hematology; pulmonary; nephrology; neurology; and infectious disease).
- (2) Anesthesiology—available.
- (3) Clinical laboratory services, onsite for blood banking, hematology, blood chemistry and urinalysis. These services shall be under the same direct management and quality assurance programs as the main hospital laboratories.
- (4) Diagnostic radiology, including bedside X-rays—onsite.
- (5) Cardiac catheterization and interventional angiography laboratory—onsite.
- (6) Respiratory care services—available.
- (7) Cardiac intensive care service—onsite.
- (8) Inpatient service for continuing care after transfer from the intensive care unit.
- (9) An advanced cardiac life support certified physician—onsite.
- (10) Cardiographic laboratory, including continuous electrocardiogram monitoring—available.
- (11) Echocardiography service (this may or may not be a part of the cardiographic laboratory)—available.
- (12) Installation of pacemakers—available.
- (13) Organized and designated cardiopulmonary resuscitation team—onsite.
- (14) Bioengineering service—available.
- (15) Peripheral vascular surgery and a noninvasive vascular laboratory—available.
- (16) Acute inpatient dialysis—available.