Developmental Disabilities and Mental Illness Committee
Filed: 03/04/04
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1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4092
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4092 by replacing | ||||||
3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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4 | "Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental | ||||||
5 | Disabilities Administrative Act is amended by adding Section | ||||||
6 | 4.4 as follows: | ||||||
7 | (20 ILCS 1705/4.4 new) | ||||||
8 | Sec. 4.4. Mental health facility data collection.
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9 | (a) In order to determine the nature, magnitude, and | ||||||
10 | consequences to persons with mental illness of the closure and | ||||||
11 | downsizing of State-operated mental health facilities and the | ||||||
12 | reduction of resources provided to mental health facilities, | ||||||
13 | the Department shall collect and publish data as set forth in | ||||||
14 | this Section. This data shall be used to inform future | ||||||
15 | decisions regarding the public and private mental health | ||||||
16 | facilities.
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17 | (b) The Department shall collect, from all inpatient mental | ||||||
18 | health facilities, statistics concerning the provision of | ||||||
19 | mental health services and shall publish those statistics at | ||||||
20 | least once per year. The statistics collected by the Department | ||||||
21 | shall include the following data: | ||||||
22 | (1) Admissions or discharges, and average daily census | ||||||
23 | data and legal basis for admission.
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24 | (2) Average length of stay for persons discharged by |
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1 | facility, discharge diagnosis, and legal basis for | ||||||
2 | admission.
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3 | (3) Commitment petitions filed by facility, county of | ||||||
4 | residence, and outcome.
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5 | (4) Petitions for involuntary treatment under Section | ||||||
6 | 2-107.1 of the Mental Health and Developmental | ||||||
7 | Disabilities Code and outcome.
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8 | (5) Data collected under Section 2-110.1 of the Mental | ||||||
9 | Health and Developmental Disabilities Code.
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10 | (6) Number of persons on conditional release from any | ||||||
11 | State-operated facility pursuant to Section 5-2-4 of the | ||||||
12 | Unified Code of Corrections.
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13 | (7) Denials of admission to State-operated facilities | ||||||
14 | pursuant to Section 3-405 of the Mental Health and | ||||||
15 | Developmental Disabilities Code.
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16 | (8) From State-operated facilities, admission by | ||||||
17 | number of prior admissions and facility of current | ||||||
18 | admission.
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19 | (9) Type of placement for discharged persons by | ||||||
20 | category of facilities, such as: jails, prisons, nursing | ||||||
21 | homes, shelters, community-integrated living arrangements, | ||||||
22 | family or relatives, supported or assisted housing, | ||||||
23 | State-operated facilities, residential facilities, or | ||||||
24 | independent living.
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25 | (c) Each mental health facility must provide the | ||||||
26 | Department, at least quarterly, with the information specified | ||||||
27 | in this Section and any information required by any rule | ||||||
28 | promulgated pursuant to this Section. No information shall be | ||||||
29 | provided under this Section except as permitted under the | ||||||
30 | Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code and other | ||||||
31 | State and federal laws governing the confidentiality of mental | ||||||
32 | health records, substance abuse records, and other medical | ||||||
33 | records.
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34 | (d) The Department may collect and disseminate this |
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1 | information electronically, provided that the Department | ||||||
2 | provides to mental health facilities technical assistance in | ||||||
3 | the collection of this data.
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4 | (e) The Department shall consult with other State | ||||||
5 | departments and agencies, including, but not limited to, the | ||||||
6 | Department of Public Health and the Department of Public Aid, | ||||||
7 | to determine to what extent any of the data included in this | ||||||
8 | Section is already being collected by these departments and | ||||||
9 | agencies. The Department shall not require any facility to | ||||||
10 | provide data under this Section directly to the Department if | ||||||
11 | the data is already being provided to another State department | ||||||
12 | or agency. Any data included in this Section that any other | ||||||
13 | State department or agency is collecting shall be provided to | ||||||
14 | the Department for the purposes set forth in this Section. The | ||||||
15 | Department may use information collected pursuant to | ||||||
16 | subsection (b) of Section 12 of the Mental Health and | ||||||
17 | Developmental Disabilities Confidentiality Act for the | ||||||
18 | purposes of this Section. The Department may form a work group | ||||||
19 | of the Department of Public Health, the Department of Public | ||||||
20 | Aid, and representatives of mental health facilities for the | ||||||
21 | purpose of ensuring coordination and cooperation.
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22 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, | ||||||
23 | 2005.".
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