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Rep. Jerry F. Costello, II
Filed: 3/19/2013
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2765
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| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2765 by replacing |
| 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | | "Section 5. The Illinois Act on the Aging is amended by |
| 5 | | changing Section 4.03 as follows:
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| 6 | | (20 ILCS 105/4.03) (from Ch. 23, par. 6104.03)
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| 7 | | Sec. 4.03. The Department on Aging, in cooperation with the |
| 8 | | Department of
Human Services and any other appropriate State, |
| 9 | | local or
federal agency, shall, without regard to income |
| 10 | | guidelines, establish a
nursing home prescreening program to |
| 11 | | determine whether Alzheimer's Disease
and related disorders |
| 12 | | victims, and persons who are deemed as blind or
disabled as |
| 13 | | defined by the Social Security Act and who are in need of long
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| 14 | | term care, may be satisfactorily cared for in their homes |
| 15 | | through the use
of home and community based services. |
| 16 | | Responsibility for prescreening shall be vested with case |
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| 1 | | coordination units.
Prescreening shall occur: (i) when |
| 2 | | hospital discharge planners have advised the case coordination |
| 3 | | unit of the imminent risk of nursing home placement of a |
| 4 | | patient who meets the above criteria and in advance of |
| 5 | | discharge of the patient; or (ii) when a case coordination unit |
| 6 | | has been advised of the imminent risk of nursing home placement |
| 7 | | of an individual in the community. The individual who is |
| 8 | | prescreened shall be informed of all appropriate options, |
| 9 | | including placement in a nursing home and the availability of |
| 10 | | in-home and community-based services and shall be advised of |
| 11 | | her or his right to refuse nursing home, in-home, |
| 12 | | community-based, or all services. In addition, the individual |
| 13 | | being prescreened shall be informed of spousal impoverishment |
| 14 | | requirements, the need to submit financial information to |
| 15 | | access services, and the consequences for failure to do so in a |
| 16 | | form and manner developed jointly by the Department on Aging, |
| 17 | | the Department of Human Services, and the Department of |
| 18 | | Healthcare and Family Services. Case coordination units under
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| 19 | | contract with the Department may charge a fee for the |
| 20 | | prescreening provided
under this Section and the fee shall be |
| 21 | | no greater than the cost of such
services to the case |
| 22 | | coordination unit. At the time of each prescreening, case |
| 23 | | coordination units shall provide information regarding the |
| 24 | | Office of State Long Term Care Ombudsman's Residents Right to |
| 25 | | Know database as authorized in subsection (c-5) of Section |
| 26 | | 4.04.
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