# COMAR Title 30 — Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems (MIEMSS)

## Subtitle 08 — Designation of Trauma and Specialty Referral Centers

### Chapter 07 — Specialty Referral Center Designation Criteria

#### Regulation .11 New Applicants.

*COMAR 30.08.07.11*

An applicant hospital that, under this subtitle, has not previously been designated as a specialty referral center by MIEMSS or contracted with MIEMSS as a specialty referral center shall:

A. Be subject to the specialty referral center designation criteria; and

B. Demonstrate that its proposed specialty referral center can generate sufficient patient volume without adversely affecting patient volumes at other existing, designated, or contract specialty referral centers.