(410 ILCS 235/4) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7504)
Sec. 4.
Every hospital in this State licensed under the Hospital
Licensing Act or an Act in relation to the founding and operation of the
University of Illinois Hospital, shall provide the parents or guardians of
each newborn child the pamphlet pursuant to Section 3 of this Act. Parents or guardians of a newborn child in a neonatal intensive care unit shall be informed about the importance of parents, guardians, and immediate family members being immunized against pertussis to minimize the chances that the disease will be communicated to the newborn child and shall also be informed about where they may obtain the appropriate vaccine.
(Source: P.A. 98-184, eff. 8-5-13.)
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