Section 1250.1630  Availability of Service

a)         Criteria #1:  Is needed staff available at all facilities providing such services?

b)         Standard #1:

1)         There should be appropriate staff utilizing the equipment.

2)         (The staffing standards detailed in this Section shall be utilized for review unless licensure standards are adopted and promulgated by the Agency in accordance with the "Illinois Administrative Procedure Act" (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1991, ch. 127, pars. 1001-1 et seq.) for this service in which case those standards shall be utilized.)

A)        TCT  Head Scanner – Membership of a neurologist or neurosurgeon on the hospital's active staff.

B)        TCT  Body Scanner – In addition to the staffing requirements for a TCT head scanner institutions must have on staff board certified or board eligible physicians in the following specialties:  surgery, thoracic surgery and internal medicine.

C)        All TCT scanners – a radiation physicist, biomedical engineer and a computer expert available on staff or as consultants.

c)         Data Factors:  Staff available on staff and consultant contract.

d)         Criteria #2:  Are scanning services available on an emergency basis?

e)         Standard #1:  All facilities providing the service should be able to perform scanning services on an emergency basis.  (24 hour)

f)          Data Factors:

1)         Operation schedule.

2)         Staff availability.

3)         Emergency scan volume.