Developmental Disabilities and Mental Illness Committee

Filed: 03/04/04

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4092

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4092 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
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.
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.
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.
24         (2) Average length of stay for persons discharged by

 

 

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1 facility, discharge diagnosis, and legal basis for
2 admission.
3         (3) Commitment petitions filed by facility, county of
4 residence, and outcome.
5         (4) Petitions for involuntary treatment under Section
6 2-107.1 of the Mental Health and Developmental
7 Disabilities Code and outcome.
8         (5) Data collected under Section 2-110.1 of the Mental
9 Health and Developmental Disabilities Code.
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.
13         (7) Denials of admission to State-operated facilities
14 pursuant to Section 3-405 of the Mental Health and
15 Developmental Disabilities Code.
16         (8) From State-operated facilities, admission by
17 number of prior admissions and facility of current
18 admission.
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.
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.
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.
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.
 
22     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1,
23 2005.".