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210 ILCS 50/3.95

(210 ILCS 50/3.95)

Sec. 3.95.

Level I Trauma Center Minimum Standards.

The Department shall establish, through rules adopted
pursuant to this Act, standards for Level I Trauma Centers
which shall include, but need not be limited to:

(a) The designation by the trauma center of a
Trauma Center Medical Director and specification of his
qualifications;

(b) The types of surgical services the trauma
center must have available for trauma patients, including but not
limited to a twenty-four hour in-house surgeon with
operating privileges and ancillary staff necessary for
immediate surgical intervention;

(c) The types of nonsurgical services the trauma
center must have available for trauma patients;

(d) The numbers and qualifications of emergency
medical personnel;

(e) The types of equipment that must be available
to trauma patients;

(f) Requiring the trauma center to be affiliated
with an EMS System;

(g) Requiring the trauma center to have a
communications system that is fully integrated with all
Level II Trauma Centers and EMS Systems with which it is
affiliated;

(h) The types of data the trauma center must
collect and submit to the Department relating to the trauma services
it provides.  Such data may include information on
post-trauma care directly related to the initial traumatic
injury provided to trauma patients until their discharge
from the facility and information on discharge plans;

(i) Requiring the trauma center to have helicopter
landing capabilities approved by appropriate State and
federal authorities, if the trauma center is located within
a municipality having a population of less than two million
people; and

(j) Requiring written agreements with Level II
Trauma Centers in the EMS Regions it serves, executed within a
reasonable time designated by the Department.

(Source: P.A. 89-177, eff. 7-19-95.)