[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 42, Volume 4]
[Revised as of October 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 42CFR482.70]

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                         TITLE 42--PUBLIC HEALTH
 
  CHAPTER IV--CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF 
                  HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (CONTINUED)
 
PART 482_CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION FOR HOSPITALS--Table of Contents
 
             Subpart E_Requirements for Specialty Hospitals
 
Sec.  482.70  Definitions.

    As used in this subpart, the following definitions apply:
    Adverse event means an untoward, undesirable, and usually 
unanticipated

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event that causes death or serious injury, or the risk thereof. As 
applied to transplant centers, examples of adverse events include (but 
are not limited to) serious medical complications or death caused by 
living donation; unintentional transplantation of organs of mismatched 
blood types; transplantation of organs to unintended recipients; and 
unintended transmission of infectious disease to a recipient.
    End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) means that stage of renal impairment 
that appears irreversible and permanent, and requires a regular course 
of dialysis or kidney transplantation to maintain life.
    ESRD Network means all Medicare-approved ESRD facilities in a 
designated geographic area specified by CMS.
    Heart-Lung transplant center means a transplant center that is 
located in a hospital with an existing Medicare-approved heart 
transplant center and an existing Medicare-approved lung center that 
performs combined heart-lung transplants.
    Intestine transplant center means a Medicare-approved liver 
transplant center that performs intestine transplants, combined liver-
intestine transplants, or multivisceral transplants.
    Network organization means the administrative governing body to the 
network and liaison to the Federal government.
    Pancreas transplant center means a Medicare-approved kidney 
transplant center that performs pancreas transplants alone or subsequent 
to a kidney transplant as well as kidney-pancreas transplants.
    Transplant center means an organ-specific transplant program (as 
defined in this rule) within a transplant hospital (for example, a 
hospital's lung transplant program may also be referred to as the 
hospital's lung transplant center).
    Transplant hospital means a hospital that furnishes organ 
transplants and other medical and surgical specialty services required 
for the care of transplant patients.
    Transplant program means a component within a transplant hospital 
(as defined in this rule) that provides transplantation of a particular 
type of organ.

               General Requirements for Transplant Centers