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Full Text of HB2423  98th General Assembly

HB2423 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

  
  

 


 
98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
HB2423

 

Introduced , by Rep. William Davis

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
20 ILCS 3960/3  from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1153
20 ILCS 3960/5  from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1155
20 ILCS 3960/12  from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1162

    Specifies that certain facilities qualify as health care facilities for the purposes of the Act, regardless of whether they are owned or operated by a physician, a partnership, a medical or professional corporation, or an unincorporated medical or professional group. Deletes a provision that exempted from the definition of "health care facilities" certain facilities owned or operated by a physician, a partnership, a medical or professional corporation, or an unincorporated medical or professional group. Deletes a provision which specifies that permits for projects that are not obligated within the prescribed obligation period expire on the last day of that period. Changes the circumstances under which the Board issues written decisions. Defines "category of service".


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1    AN ACT concerning State government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act is
5amended by changing Sections 3, 5, and 12 as follows:
 
6    (20 ILCS 3960/3)  (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1153)
7    (Section scheduled to be repealed on December 31, 2019)
8    Sec. 3. Definitions. As used in this Act:
9    "Health care facilities" means and includes the following
10facilities, and organizations, and related persons:
11        1. An ambulatory surgical treatment center required to
12    be licensed pursuant to the Ambulatory Surgical Treatment
13    Center Act;
14        2. An institution, place, building, or agency required
15    to be licensed pursuant to the Hospital Licensing Act;
16        3. Skilled and intermediate long term care facilities
17    licensed under the Nursing Home Care Act;
18        3.5. Skilled and intermediate care facilities licensed
19    under the ID/DD Community Care Act;
20        3.7. Facilities licensed under the Specialized Mental
21    Health Rehabilitation Act;
22        4. Hospitals, nursing homes, ambulatory surgical
23    treatment centers, or kidney disease treatment centers

 

 

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1    maintained by the State or any department or agency
2    thereof;
3        5. Kidney disease treatment centers, including a
4    free-standing hemodialysis unit required to be licensed
5    under the End Stage Renal Disease Facility Act;
6        6. An institution, place, building, or room used for
7    the performance of outpatient surgical procedures that is
8    leased, owned, or operated by or on behalf of an
9    out-of-state facility;
10        7. An institution, place, building, or room used for
11    provision of a health care category of service as defined
12    by the Board, including, but not limited to,
13    medical-surgical, pediatrics, cardiac catheterization, and
14    open heart surgery, regardless of whether the facility is
15    owned or operated by a physician, a partnership, a medical
16    or professional corporation, or an unincorporated medical
17    or professional group; and
18        8. An institution, place, building, or room used for
19    provision of major medical equipment used in the direct
20    clinical diagnosis or treatment of patients, and whose
21    project cost is in excess of the capital expenditure
22    minimum, regardless of whether the facility is owned or
23    operated by a physician, a partnership, a medical or
24    professional corporation, or an unincorporated medical or
25    professional group.
26    This Act shall not apply to the construction of any new

 

 

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1facility or the renovation of any existing facility located on
2any campus facility as defined in Section 5-5.8b of the
3Illinois Public Aid Code, provided that the campus facility
4encompasses 30 or more contiguous acres and that the new or
5renovated facility is intended for use by a licensed
6residential facility.
7    No federally owned facility shall be subject to the
8provisions of this Act, nor facilities used solely for healing
9by prayer or spiritual means.
10    No facility licensed under the Supportive Residences
11Licensing Act or the Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act
12shall be subject to the provisions of this Act.
13    No facility established and operating under the
14Alternative Health Care Delivery Act as a children's respite
15care center alternative health care model demonstration
16program or as an Alzheimer's Disease Management Center
17alternative health care model demonstration program shall be
18subject to the provisions of this Act.
19    A facility designated as a supportive living facility that
20is in good standing with the program established under Section
215-5.01a of the Illinois Public Aid Code shall not be subject to
22the provisions of this Act.
23    This Act does not apply to facilities granted waivers under
24Section 3-102.2 of the Nursing Home Care Act. However, if a
25demonstration project under that Act applies for a certificate
26of need to convert to a nursing facility, it shall meet the

 

 

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1licensure and certificate of need requirements in effect as of
2the date of application.
3    This Act does not apply to a dialysis facility that
4provides only dialysis training, support, and related services
5to individuals with end stage renal disease who have elected to
6receive home dialysis. This Act does not apply to a dialysis
7unit located in a licensed nursing home that offers or provides
8dialysis-related services to residents with end stage renal
9disease who have elected to receive home dialysis within the
10nursing home. The Board, however, may require these dialysis
11facilities and licensed nursing homes to report statistical
12information on a quarterly basis to the Board to be used by the
13Board to conduct analyses on the need for proposed kidney
14disease treatment centers.
15    This Act shall not apply to the closure of an entity or a
16portion of an entity licensed under the Nursing Home Care Act,
17the Specialized Mental Health Rehabilitation Act, or the ID/DD
18Community Care Act, with the exceptions of facilities operated
19by a county or Illinois Veterans Homes, that elects to convert,
20in whole or in part, to an assisted living or shared housing
21establishment licensed under the Assisted Living and Shared
22Housing Act.
23    This Act does not apply to any change of ownership of a
24healthcare facility that is licensed under the Nursing Home
25Care Act, the Specialized Mental Health Rehabilitation Act, or
26the ID/DD Community Care Act, with the exceptions of facilities

 

 

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1operated by a county or Illinois Veterans Homes. Changes of
2ownership of facilities licensed under the Nursing Home Care
3Act must meet the requirements set forth in Sections 3-101
4through 3-119 of the Nursing Home Care Act.
5    With the exception of those health care facilities
6specifically included in this Section, nothing in this Act
7shall be intended to include facilities operated as a part of
8the practice of a physician or other licensed health care
9professional, whether practicing in his individual capacity or
10within the legal structure of any partnership, medical or
11professional corporation, or unincorporated medical or
12professional group. Further, this Act shall not apply to
13physicians or other licensed health care professional's
14practices where such practices are carried out in a portion of
15a health care facility under contract with such health care
16facility by a physician or by other licensed health care
17professionals, whether practicing in his individual capacity
18or within the legal structure of any partnership, medical or
19professional corporation, or unincorporated medical or
20professional groups. This Act shall apply to construction or
21modification and to establishment by such health care facility
22of such contracted portion which is subject to facility
23licensing requirements, irrespective of the party responsible
24for such action or attendant financial obligation.
25    No permit or exemption is required for a facility licensed
26under the ID/DD Community Care Act prior to the reduction of

 

 

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1the number of beds at a facility. If there is a total reduction
2of beds at a facility licensed under the ID/DD Community Care
3Act, this is a discontinuation or closure of the facility.
4However, if a facility licensed under the ID/DD Community Care
5Act reduces the number of beds or discontinues the facility,
6that facility must notify the Board as provided in Section 14.1
7of this Act.
8    "Person" means any one or more natural persons, legal
9entities, governmental bodies other than federal, or any
10combination thereof.
11    "Consumer" means any person other than a person (a) whose
12major occupation currently involves or whose official capacity
13within the last 12 months has involved the providing,
14administering or financing of any type of health care facility,
15(b) who is engaged in health research or the teaching of
16health, (c) who has a material financial interest in any
17activity which involves the providing, administering or
18financing of any type of health care facility, or (d) who is or
19ever has been a member of the immediate family of the person
20defined by (a), (b), or (c).
21    "State Board" or "Board" means the Health Facilities and
22Services Review Board.
23    "Construction or modification" means the establishment,
24erection, building, alteration, reconstruction, modernization,
25improvement, extension, discontinuation, change of ownership,
26of or by a health care facility, or the purchase or acquisition

 

 

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1by or through a health care facility of equipment or service
2for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes or for facility
3administration or operation, or any capital expenditure made by
4or on behalf of a health care facility which exceeds the
5capital expenditure minimum; however, any capital expenditure
6made by or on behalf of a health care facility for (i) the
7construction or modification of a facility licensed under the
8Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act or (ii) a conversion
9project undertaken in accordance with Section 30 of the Older
10Adult Services Act shall be excluded from any obligations under
11this Act.
12    "Establish" means the construction of a health care
13facility or the replacement of an existing facility on another
14site or the initiation of a category of service as defined by
15the Board.
16    "Major medical equipment" means medical equipment which is
17used for the provision of medical and other health services and
18which costs in excess of the capital expenditure minimum,
19except that such term does not include medical equipment
20acquired by or on behalf of a clinical laboratory to provide
21clinical laboratory services if the clinical laboratory is
22independent of a physician's office and a hospital and it has
23been determined under Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to
24meet the requirements of paragraphs (10) and (11) of Section
251861(s) of such Act. In determining whether medical equipment
26has a value in excess of the capital expenditure minimum, the

 

 

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1value of studies, surveys, designs, plans, working drawings,
2specifications, and other activities essential to the
3acquisition of such equipment shall be included.
4    "Capital Expenditure" means an expenditure: (A) made by or
5on behalf of a health care facility (as such a facility is
6defined in this Act); and (B) which under generally accepted
7accounting principles is not properly chargeable as an expense
8of operation and maintenance, or is made to obtain by lease or
9comparable arrangement any facility or part thereof or any
10equipment for a facility or part; and which exceeds the capital
11expenditure minimum.
12    For the purpose of this paragraph, the cost of any studies,
13surveys, designs, plans, working drawings, specifications, and
14other activities essential to the acquisition, improvement,
15expansion, or replacement of any plant or equipment with
16respect to which an expenditure is made shall be included in
17determining if such expenditure exceeds the capital
18expenditures minimum. Unless otherwise interdependent, or
19submitted as one project by the applicant, components of
20construction or modification undertaken by means of a single
21construction contract or financed through the issuance of a
22single debt instrument shall not be grouped together as one
23project. Donations of equipment or facilities to a health care
24facility which if acquired directly by such facility would be
25subject to review under this Act shall be considered capital
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1less than fair market value shall be considered a capital
2expenditure for purposes of this Act if a transfer of the
3equipment or facilities at fair market value would be subject
4to review.
5    "Capital expenditure minimum" means $11,500,000 for
6projects by hospital applicants, $6,500,000 for applicants for
7projects related to skilled and intermediate care long-term
8care facilities licensed under the Nursing Home Care Act, and
9$3,000,000 for projects by all other applicants, which shall be
10annually adjusted to reflect the increase in construction costs
11due to inflation, for major medical equipment and for all other
12capital expenditures.
13    "Non-clinical service area" means an area (i) for the
14benefit of the patients, visitors, staff, or employees of a
15health care facility and (ii) not directly related to the
16diagnosis, treatment, or rehabilitation of persons receiving
17services from the health care facility. "Non-clinical service
18areas" include, but are not limited to, chapels; gift shops;
19news stands; computer systems; tunnels, walkways, and
20elevators; telephone systems; projects to comply with life
21safety codes; educational facilities; student housing;
22patient, employee, staff, and visitor dining areas;
23administration and volunteer offices; modernization of
24structural components (such as roof replacement and masonry
25work); boiler repair or replacement; vehicle maintenance and
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1heating, ventilation, and air conditioning; loading docks; and
2repair or replacement of carpeting, tile, wall coverings,
3window coverings or treatments, or furniture. Solely for the
4purpose of this definition, "non-clinical service area" does
5not include health and fitness centers.
6    "Areawide" means a major area of the State delineated on a
7geographic, demographic, and functional basis for health
8planning and for health service and having within it one or
9more local areas for health planning and health service. The
10term "region", as contrasted with the term "subregion", and the
11word "area" may be used synonymously with the term "areawide".
12    "Local" means a subarea of a delineated major area that on
13a geographic, demographic, and functional basis may be
14considered to be part of such major area. The term "subregion"
15may be used synonymously with the term "local".
16    "Physician" means a person licensed to practice in
17accordance with the Medical Practice Act of 1987, as amended.
18    "Licensed health care professional" means a person
19licensed to practice a health profession under pertinent
20licensing statutes of the State of Illinois.
21    "Director" means the Director of the Illinois Department of
22Public Health.
23    "Agency" means the Illinois Department of Public Health.
24    "Alternative health care model" means a facility or program
25authorized under the Alternative Health Care Delivery Act.
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1licensed as a hospital or as an ambulatory surgery center under
2the laws of another state or that qualifies as a hospital or an
3ambulatory surgery center under regulations adopted pursuant
4to the Social Security Act and (ii) not licensed under the
5Ambulatory Surgical Treatment Center Act, the Hospital
6Licensing Act, or the Nursing Home Care Act. Affiliates of
7out-of-state facilities shall be considered out-of-state
8facilities. Affiliates of Illinois licensed health care
9facilities 100% owned by an Illinois licensed health care
10facility, its parent, or Illinois physicians licensed to
11practice medicine in all its branches shall not be considered
12out-of-state facilities. Nothing in this definition shall be
13construed to include an office or any part of an office of a
14physician licensed to practice medicine in all its branches in
15Illinois that is not required to be licensed under the
16Ambulatory Surgical Treatment Center Act.
17    "Change of ownership of a health care facility" means a
18change in the person who has ownership or control of a health
19care facility's physical plant and capital assets. A change in
20ownership is indicated by the following transactions: sale,
21transfer, acquisition, lease, change of sponsorship, or other
22means of transferring control.
23    "Related person" means any person that: (i) is at least 50%
24owned, directly or indirectly, by either the health care
25facility or a person owning, directly or indirectly, at least
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1indirectly, at least 50% of the health care facility.
2    "Charity care" means care provided by a health care
3facility for which the provider does not expect to receive
4payment from the patient or a third-party payer.
5    "Freestanding emergency center" means a facility subject
6to licensure under Section 32.5 of the Emergency Medical
7Services (EMS) Systems Act.
8    "Category of service" means a grouping by generic class of
9various types or levels of support functions, equipment, care,
10or treatment provided to patients or residents, including, but
11not limited to, classes such as medical-surgical, pediatrics,
12or cardiac catheterization. A category of service may include
13subcategories or levels of care that identify a particular
14degree or type of care within the category of service.
15(Source: P.A. 96-31, eff. 6-30-09; 96-339, eff. 7-1-10;
1696-1000, eff. 7-2-10; 97-38, eff. 6-28-11; 97-277, eff. 1-1-12;
1797-813, eff. 7-13-12; 97-980, eff. 8-17-12.)
 
18    (20 ILCS 3960/5)  (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1155)
19    (Section scheduled to be repealed on December 31, 2019)
20    Sec. 5. Construction, modification, or establishment of
21health care facilities or acquisition of major medical
22equipment; permits or exemptions. No person shall construct,
23modify or establish a health care facility or acquire major
24medical equipment without first obtaining a permit or exemption
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1staff of the State Board or any other person or entity the
2authority to grant permits or exemptions whenever the staff or
3other person or entity would be required to exercise any
4discretion affecting the decision to grant a permit or
5exemption. The State Board may, by rule, delegate authority to
6the Chairman to grant permits or exemptions when applications
7meet all of the State Board's review criteria and are
8unopposed.
9    A permit or exemption shall be obtained prior to the
10acquisition of major medical equipment or to the construction
11or modification of a health care facility which:
12        (a) requires a total capital expenditure in excess of
13    the capital expenditure minimum; or
14        (b) substantially changes the scope or changes the
15    functional operation of the facility; or
16        (c) changes the bed capacity of a health care facility
17    by increasing the total number of beds or by distributing
18    beds among various categories of service or by relocating
19    beds from one physical facility or site to another by more
20    than 20 beds or more than 10% of total bed capacity as
21    defined by the State Board, whichever is less, over a 2
22    year period.
23    A permit shall be valid only for the defined construction
24or modifications, site, amount and person named in the
25application for such permit and shall not be transferable or
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1project has been completed, provided that the project commences
2and proceeds to completion with due diligence by the completion
3date or extension date approved by the Board.
4    A permit holder must do the following: (i) submit the final
5completion and cost report for the project within 90 days after
6the approved project completion date or extension date and (ii)
7submit annual progress reports no earlier than 30 days before
8and no later than 30 days after each anniversary date of the
9Board's approval of the permit until the project is completed.
10To maintain a valid permit and to monitor progress toward
11project commencement and completion, routine post-permit
12reports shall be limited to annual progress reports and the
13final completion and cost report. Annual progress reports shall
14include information regarding the committed funds expended
15toward the approved project. If the project is not completed in
16one year, then, by the second annual report, the permit holder
17shall expend 33% or more of the total project cost or shall
18make a commitment to expend 33% or more of the total project
19cost by signed contracts or other legal means, and the report
20shall contain information regarding those expenditures or
21commitments. If the project is to be completed in one year,
22then the first annual report shall contain the expenditure
23commitment information for the total project cost. The State
24Board may extend the expenditure commitment period after
25considering a permit holder's showing of good cause and request
26for additional time to complete the project.

 

 

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1    The Certificate of Need process required under this Act is
2designed to restrain rising health care costs by preventing
3unnecessary construction or modification of health care
4facilities. The Board must assure that the establishment,
5construction, or modification of a health care facility or the
6acquisition of major medical equipment is consistent with the
7public interest and that the proposed project is consistent
8with the orderly and economic development or acquisition of
9those facilities and equipment and is in accord with the
10standards, criteria, or plans of need adopted and approved by
11the Board. Board decisions regarding the construction of health
12care facilities must consider capacity, quality, value, and
13equity. Projects may deviate from the costs, fees, and expenses
14provided in their project cost information for the project's
15cost components, provided that the final total project cost
16does not exceed the approved permit amount. Project alterations
17shall not increase the total approved permit amount by more
18than the limit set forth under the Board's rules.
19    Major construction projects, for the purposes of this Act,
20shall include but are not limited to: projects for the
21construction of new buildings; additions to existing
22facilities; modernization projects whose cost is in excess of
23$1,000,000 or 10% of the facilities' operating revenue,
24whichever is less; and such other projects as the State Board
25shall define and prescribe pursuant to this Act.
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1the prescribed obligation period shall expire on the last day
2of that period.
3    The acquisition by any person of major medical equipment
4that will not be owned by or located in a health care facility
5and that will not be used to provide services to inpatients of
6a health care facility shall be exempt from review provided
7that a notice is filed in accordance with exemption
8requirements.
9    Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, no permit
10or exemption is required for the construction or modification
11of a non-clinical service area of a health care facility.
12(Source: P.A. 96-31, eff. 6-30-09; 97-1115, eff. 8-27-12.)
 
13    (20 ILCS 3960/12)  (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1162)
14    (Section scheduled to be repealed on December 31, 2019)
15    Sec. 12. Powers and duties of State Board. For purposes of
16this Act, the State Board shall exercise the following powers
17and duties:
18    (1) Prescribe rules, regulations, standards, criteria,
19procedures or reviews which may vary according to the purpose
20for which a particular review is being conducted or the type of
21project reviewed and which are required to carry out the
22provisions and purposes of this Act. Policies and procedures of
23the State Board shall take into consideration the priorities
24and needs of medically underserved areas and other health care
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1process, giving special consideration to the impact of projects
2on access to safety net services.
3    (2) Adopt procedures for public notice and hearing on all
4proposed rules, regulations, standards, criteria, and plans
5required to carry out the provisions of this Act.
6    (3) (Blank).
7    (4) Develop criteria and standards for health care
8facilities planning, conduct statewide inventories of health
9care facilities, maintain an updated inventory on the Board's
10web site reflecting the most recent bed and service changes and
11updated need determinations when new census data become
12available or new need formulae are adopted, and develop health
13care facility plans which shall be utilized in the review of
14applications for permit under this Act. Such health facility
15plans shall be coordinated by the Board with pertinent State
16Plans. Inventories pursuant to this Section of skilled or
17intermediate care facilities licensed under the Nursing Home
18Care Act, skilled or intermediate care facilities licensed
19under the ID/DD Community Care Act, facilities licensed under
20the Specialized Mental Health Rehabilitation Act, or nursing
21homes licensed under the Hospital Licensing Act shall be
22conducted on an annual basis no later than July 1 of each year
23and shall include among the information requested a list of all
24services provided by a facility to its residents and to the
25community at large and differentiate between active and
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1    In developing health care facility plans, the State Board
2shall consider, but shall not be limited to, the following:
3        (a) The size, composition and growth of the population
4    of the area to be served;
5        (b) The number of existing and planned facilities
6    offering similar programs;
7        (c) The extent of utilization of existing facilities;
8        (d) The availability of facilities which may serve as
9    alternatives or substitutes;
10        (e) The availability of personnel necessary to the
11    operation of the facility;
12        (f) Multi-institutional planning and the establishment
13    of multi-institutional systems where feasible;
14        (g) The financial and economic feasibility of proposed
15    construction or modification; and
16        (h) In the case of health care facilities established
17    by a religious body or denomination, the needs of the
18    members of such religious body or denomination may be
19    considered to be public need.
20    The health care facility plans which are developed and
21adopted in accordance with this Section shall form the basis
22for the plan of the State to deal most effectively with
23statewide health needs in regard to health care facilities.
24    (5) Coordinate with the Center for Comprehensive Health
25Planning and other state agencies having responsibilities
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1and cost reporting. Beginning no later than January 1, 2013,
2the Department of Public Health shall produce a written annual
3report to the Governor and the General Assembly regarding the
4development of the Center for Comprehensive Health Planning.
5The Chairman of the State Board and the State Board
6Administrator shall also receive a copy of the annual report.
7    (6) Solicit, accept, hold and administer on behalf of the
8State any grants or bequests of money, securities or property
9for use by the State Board or Center for Comprehensive Health
10Planning in the administration of this Act; and enter into
11contracts consistent with the appropriations for purposes
12enumerated in this Act.
13    (7) The State Board shall prescribe procedures for review,
14standards, and criteria which shall be utilized to make
15periodic reviews and determinations of the appropriateness of
16any existing health services being rendered by health care
17facilities subject to the Act. The State Board shall consider
18recommendations of the Board in making its determinations.
19    (8) Prescribe, in consultation with the Center for
20Comprehensive Health Planning, rules, regulations, standards,
21and criteria for the conduct of an expeditious review of
22applications for permits for projects of construction or
23modification of a health care facility, which projects are
24classified as emergency, substantive, or non-substantive in
25nature.
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1Public Act 96-31), substantive projects shall include no more
2than the following:
3        (a) Projects to construct (1) a new or replacement
4    facility located on a new site or (2) a replacement
5    facility located on the same site as the original facility
6    and the cost of the replacement facility exceeds the
7    capital expenditure minimum, which shall be reviewed by the
8    Board within 120 days;
9        (b) Projects proposing a (1) new service within an
10    existing healthcare facility or (2) discontinuation of a
11    service within an existing healthcare facility, which
12    shall be reviewed by the Board within 60 days; or
13        (c) Projects proposing a change in the bed capacity of
14    a health care facility by an increase in the total number
15    of beds or by a redistribution of beds among various
16    categories of service or by a relocation of beds from one
17    physical facility or site to another by more than 20 beds
18    or more than 10% of total bed capacity, as defined by the
19    State Board, whichever is less, over a 2-year period.
20    The Chairman may approve applications for exemption that
21meet the criteria set forth in rules or refer them to the full
22Board. The Chairman may approve any unopposed application that
23meets all of the review criteria or refer them to the full
24Board.
25    Such rules shall not abridge the right of the Center for
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1classification and approval of projects, nor shall such rules
2prevent the conduct of a public hearing upon the timely request
3of an interested party. Such reviews shall not exceed 60 days
4from the date the application is declared to be complete.
5    (9) Prescribe rules, regulations, standards, and criteria
6pertaining to the granting of permits for construction and
7modifications which are emergent in nature and must be
8undertaken immediately to prevent or correct structural
9deficiencies or hazardous conditions that may harm or injure
10persons using the facility, as defined in the rules and
11regulations of the State Board. This procedure is exempt from
12public hearing requirements of this Act.
13    (10) Prescribe rules, regulations, standards and criteria
14for the conduct of an expeditious review, not exceeding 60
15days, of applications for permits for projects to construct or
16modify health care facilities which are needed for the care and
17treatment of persons who have acquired immunodeficiency
18syndrome (AIDS) or related conditions.
19    (11) Issue written decisions upon request of the applicant
20or an adversely affected party to the Board within 30 days of
21the meeting in which a final decision has been made. Requests
22for a written decision shall be made within 30 days after the
23Board meeting in which a final decision has been made. A "final
24decision" for purposes of this Act is the decision to approve
25or deny an application, or take other actions permitted under
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1is scheduled by the Board. The staff of the State Board shall
2prepare a written copy of the final decision and the State
3Board shall approve a final copy for inclusion in the formal
4record. The Board shall consider, for approval, the written
5draft of the final decision no later than the next scheduled
6Board meeting. The written decision shall identify the
7applicable criteria and factors listed in this Act and the
8Board's regulations that were taken into consideration by the
9Board when coming to a final decision. If the State Board
10denies or fails to approve an application for permit or
11exemption certificate, the State Board shall include in the
12final decision a detailed explanation as to why the application
13was denied and identify what specific criteria or standards the
14applicant did not fulfill.
15    (12) Require at least one of its members to participate in
16any public hearing, after the appointment of a majority of the
17members to the Board.
18    (13) Provide a mechanism for the public to comment on, and
19request changes to, draft rules and standards.
20    (14) Implement public information campaigns to regularly
21inform the general public about the opportunity for public
22hearings and public hearing procedures.
23    (15) Establish a separate set of rules and guidelines for
24long-term care that recognizes that nursing homes are a
25different business line and service model from other regulated
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1that considers the following: how skilled nursing fits in the
2continuum of care with other care providers, modernization of
3nursing homes, establishment of more private rooms,
4development of alternative services, and current trends in
5long-term care services. The Chairman of the Board shall
6appoint a permanent Health Services Review Board Long-term Care
7Facility Advisory Subcommittee that shall develop and
8recommend to the Board the rules to be established by the Board
9under this paragraph (15). The Subcommittee shall also provide
10continuous review and commentary on policies and procedures
11relative to long-term care and the review of related projects.
12In consultation with other experts from the health field of
13long-term care, the Board and the Subcommittee shall study new
14approaches to the current bed need formula and Health Service
15Area boundaries to encourage flexibility and innovation in
16design models reflective of the changing long-term care
17marketplace and consumer preferences. The Subcommittee shall
18evaluate, and make recommendations to the State Board
19regarding, the buying, selling, and exchange of beds between
20long-term care facilities within a specified geographic area or
21drive time. The Board shall file the proposed related
22administrative rules for the separate rules and guidelines for
23long-term care required by this paragraph (15) by no later than
24September 30, 2011. The Subcommittee shall be provided a
25reasonable and timely opportunity to review and comment on any
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1procedures, and rules used to evaluate project applications as
2provided under Section 12.3 of this Act.
3(Source: P.A. 96-31, eff. 6-30-09; 96-339, eff. 7-1-10;
496-1000, eff. 7-2-10; 97-38, eff. 6-28-11; 97-227, eff. 1-1-12;
597-813, eff. 7-13-12; 97-1045, eff. 8-21-13; 97-1115, eff.
68-27-12; revised 10-11-12.)