(305 ILCS 5/5-46)

Sec. 5-46. General acute care hospitals. A general acute care hospital is authorized to file a notice with the Department of Public Health and the Health Facilities and Services Review Board to establish an acute mental illness category of service in accordance with the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act and add authorized acute mental illness beds if the following conditions are met:

(1) the general acute care hospital qualifies as a safety-net hospital, as defined in Section 5-5e.1, as determined by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services at the time of filing the notice or for the year immediately prior to the date of filing the notice;

(2) the notice seeks to establish no more than 24 authorized acute mental illness beds; and

(3) the notice seeks to reduce the number of authorized beds in another category of service to offset the number of authorized acute mental illness beds.

(Source: P.A. 102-886, eff. 5-17-22; 103-154, eff. 6-30-23.)