Full Text of HB0809 95th General Assembly
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| AN ACT concerning regulation.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 2. The Illinois Act on the Aging is amended by | 5 |
| changing Section 4.03 as follows:
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| (20 ILCS 105/4.03) (from Ch. 23, par. 6104.03)
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| 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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| 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 | 17 |
| coordination units.
Prescreening shall occur: (i) when | 18 |
| hospital discharge planners have advised the case coordination | 19 |
| unit of the imminent risk of nursing home placement of a | 20 |
| patient who meets the above criteria and in advance of | 21 |
| discharge of the patient; or (ii) when a case coordination unit | 22 |
| has been advised of the imminent risk of nursing home placement | 23 |
| of an individual in the community. The individual who is |
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| prescreened shall be informed of all appropriate options, | 2 |
| including placement in a nursing home and the availability of | 3 |
| in-home and community-based services and shall be advised of | 4 |
| her or his right to refuse nursing home, in-home, | 5 |
| community-based, or all services. Case coordination units | 6 |
| under
contract with the Department may charge a fee for the | 7 |
| prescreening provided
under this Section and the fee shall be | 8 |
| no greater than the cost of such
services to the case | 9 |
| coordination unit.
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| (Source: P.A. 89-21, eff. 7-1-95; 89-507, eff. 7-1-97.)
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| Section 5. The Hospital Licensing Act is amended by | 12 |
| changing Section 6.09 as follows:
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| (210 ILCS 85/6.09) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 147.09)
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| Sec. 6.09. (a) In order to facilitate the orderly | 15 |
| transition of aged
and disabled patients from hospitals to | 16 |
| post-hospital care, whenever a
patient who qualifies for the
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| federal Medicare program is hospitalized, the patient shall be | 18 |
| notified
of discharge at least
24 hours prior to discharge from
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| the hospital. With regard to pending discharges to a skilled | 20 |
| nursing facility , the hospital must notify the case | 21 |
| coordination unit, as defined in 89 Ill. Adm. Code 240.260, at | 22 |
| least 24 hours prior to discharge or , if home health services | 23 |
| are ordered, the hospital must inform its designated case | 24 |
| coordination unit, as defined in 89 Ill. Adm. Code 240.260, of |
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| the pending discharge and must provide the patient with the | 2 |
| case coordination unit's telephone number and other contact | 3 |
| information.
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| (b) Every hospital shall develop procedures for a physician | 5 |
| with medical
staff privileges at the hospital or any | 6 |
| appropriate medical staff member to
provide the discharge | 7 |
| notice prescribed in subsection (a) of this Section. The | 8 |
| procedures must include prohibitions against discharging or | 9 |
| referring a patient to any of the following if unlicensed, | 10 |
| uncertified, or unregistered: (i) a board and care facility, as | 11 |
| defined in the Board and Care Home Registration Act; (ii) an | 12 |
| assisted living and shared housing establishment, as defined in | 13 |
| the Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act; (iii) a facility | 14 |
| licensed under the Nursing Home Care Act; (iv) a supportive | 15 |
| living facility, as defined in Section 5-5.01a of the Illinois | 16 |
| Public Aid Code; or (v) a free-standing hospice facility | 17 |
| licensed under the Hospice Program Licensing Act if licensure, | 18 |
| certification, or registration is required. The Department of | 19 |
| Public Health shall annually provide hospitals with a list of | 20 |
| licensed, certified, or registered board and care facilities, | 21 |
| assisted living and shared housing establishments, nursing | 22 |
| homes, supportive living facilities, and hospice facilities. | 23 |
| Reliance upon this list by a hospital shall satisfy compliance | 24 |
| with this requirement.
The procedure may also include a waiver | 25 |
| for any case in which a discharge
notice is not feasible due to | 26 |
| a short length of stay in the hospital by the patient,
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| any case in which the patient voluntarily desires to leave the
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| hospital before the expiration of the
24 hour period.
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| (c) At least
24 hours prior to discharge from the hospital, | 4 |
| the
patient shall receive written information on the patient's | 5 |
| right to appeal the
discharge pursuant to the
federal Medicare | 6 |
| program, including the steps to follow to appeal
the discharge | 7 |
| and the appropriate telephone number to call in case the
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| patient intends to appeal the discharge.
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| (Source: P.A. 94-335, eff. 7-26-05.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 11 |
| becoming law.
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