FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, February 6, 2018 (Toledo, OH): The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that because Capital Care Network of Toledo violated a standing rule of 21 years requiring all ambulatory surgical facilities to have written hospital transfer agreements to facilitate emergency treatment, the Ohio Department of Health was within its rights to revoke the clinic’s operating license.
The Court upheld the Department of Health’s position that Capital Care Network’s agreement with the University of Michigan Health Center in Ann Arbor, some 50 miles away, does not satisfy the state’s legal requirement that it have an emergency patient transfer agreement in place with a local hospital. Continue reading »