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325 ILCS 5/7.3a

(325 ILCS 5/7.3a) (from Ch. 23, par. 2057.3a)

Sec. 7.3a.

The Director of the Department shall appoint a Perinatal
Coordinator who shall be a physician licensed to practice medicine in all
its branches with a specialty certification in pediatric care.
Such coordinator, or other designated medical
specialists, shall review all reports of suspected medical neglect involving
newborns or infants, coordinate the evaluation of the subject of such report,
and assist in necessary referrals to appropriate perinatal medical care
and treatment.  When the Perinatal Coordinator or other designated medical
specialists, alone or in consultation with an infant care review committee
established by a medical facility, determine that a newborn or infant child
is being neglected as defined in Section 3 of this Act, a designated employee
of the Department shall take the steps necessary to protect such newborn
or infant child's life or health, including but not limited to taking temporary
protective custody.

(Source: P.A. 83-1248.)