Section 503. Exception.
A health care facility may employ or otherwise contract with an individual who does not meet the requirements of section 501 to practice surgical technology in a health care facility if:
(1) after a diligent and thorough effort has been made, the health care facility is unable to employ or contract with a sufficient number of qualified surgical technologists who meet the requirements of section 501; and
(2) the health care facility makes a written record of its efforts under paragraph (1) and retains the record at the health care facility.