96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB5737

 

Introduced 2/9/2010, by Rep. Patricia R. Bellock

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
210 ILCS 50/3.30

    Amends the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the EMS Medical Directors Committee.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning regulation.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act
5 is amended by changing Section 3.30 as follows:
 
6     (210 ILCS 50/3.30)
7     Sec. 3.30. EMS Region Plan; Content.
8     (a) The EMS Medical Directors Committee shall address at
9 least the following:
10         (1) Protocols for inter-System/inter-Region patient
11     transports, including identifying the the conditions of
12     emergency patients which may not be transported to the
13     different levels of emergency department, based on their
14     Department classifications and relevant Regional
15     considerations (e.g. transport times and distances);
16         (2) Regional standing medical orders;
17         (3) Patient transfer patterns, including criteria for
18     determining whether a patient needs the specialized
19     services of a trauma center, along with protocols for the
20     bypassing of or diversion to any hospital, trauma center or
21     regional trauma center which are consistent with
22     individual System bypass or diversion protocols and
23     protocols for patient choice or refusal;

 

 

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1         (4) Protocols for resolving Regional or Inter-System
2     conflict;
3         (5) An EMS disaster preparedness plan which includes
4     the actions and responsibilities of all EMS participants
5     within the Region. Within 90 days of the effective date of
6     this amendatory Act of 1996, an EMS System shall submit to
7     the Department for review an internal disaster plan. At a
8     minimum, the plan shall include contingency plans for the
9     transfer of patients to other facilities if an evacuation
10     of the hospital becomes necessary due to a catastrophe,
11     including but not limited to, a power failure;
12         (6) Regional standardization of continuing education
13     requirements;
14         (7) Regional standardization of Do Not Resuscitate
15     (DNR) policies, and protocols for power of attorney for
16     health care;
17         (8) Protocols for disbursement of Department grants;
18     and
19         (9) Protocols for the triage, treatment, and transport
20     of possible acute stroke patients.
21     (b) The Trauma Center Medical Directors or Trauma Center
22 Medical Directors Committee shall address at least the
23 following:
24         (1) The identification of Regional Trauma Centers;
25         (2) Protocols for inter-System and inter-Region trauma
26     patient transports, including identifying the conditions

 

 

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1     of emergency patients which may not be transported to the
2     different levels of emergency department, based on their
3     Department classifications and relevant Regional
4     considerations (e.g. transport times and distances);
5         (3) Regional trauma standing medical orders;
6         (4) Trauma patient transfer patterns, including
7     criteria for determining whether a patient needs the
8     specialized services of a trauma center, along with
9     protocols for the bypassing of or diversion to any
10     hospital, trauma center or regional trauma center which are
11     consistent with individual System bypass or diversion
12     protocols and protocols for patient choice or refusal;
13         (5) The identification of which types of patients can
14     be cared for by Level I and Level II Trauma Centers;
15         (6) Criteria for inter-hospital transfer of trauma
16     patients;
17         (7) The treatment of trauma patients in each trauma
18     center within the Region;
19         (8) A program for conducting a quarterly conference
20     which shall include at a minimum a discussion of morbidity
21     and mortality between all professional staff involved in
22     the care of trauma patients;
23         (9) The establishment of a Regional trauma quality
24     assurance and improvement subcommittee, consisting of
25     trauma surgeons, which shall perform periodic medical
26     audits of each trauma center's trauma services, and forward

 

 

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1     tabulated data from such reviews to the Department; and
2         (10) The establishment, within 90 days of the effective
3     date of this amendatory Act of 1996, of an internal
4     disaster plan, which shall include, at a minimum,
5     contingency plans for the transfer of patients to other
6     facilities if an evacuation of the hospital becomes
7     necessary due to a catastrophe, including but not limited
8     to, a power failure.
9     (c) The Region's EMS Medical Directors and Trauma Center
10 Medical Directors Committees shall appoint any subcommittees
11 which they deem necessary to address specific issues concerning
12 Region activities.
13 (Source: P.A. 96-514, eff. 1-1-10.)