NEW HAVEN, Conn. — An Ohio hospital has told the family of a Connecticut woman mauled and blinded by a chimpanzee a year ago that it cannot perform a face and hand transplant for her, a family attorney said yesterday.

Charla Nash’s family is looking into alternative facilities after the Cleveland Clinic said it could not handle both transplants, which have to be done simultaneously and come from the same donor, attorney Bill Monaco said.

The 200-pound chimpanzee went berserk in February after its owner asked Nash to help lure it back into her house. The animal ripped off Nash’s hands, nose, lips and eyelids. Nash’s family is researching the possibilities of the transplants at other hospitals in the US and one in Canada.

A face transplant would help Nash smell, breathe and eat, while a hand transplant would help her be more independent. Nash has great difficulty eating and mostly uses a straw.