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90_HB3435
210 ILCS 85/6.18
Amends the Hospital Licensing Act. Provides that as part
of the discharging process, a hospital may provide material
prepared by the Department of Public Health instructing the
mother on how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation,
rather than the Heimlich Maneuver, on an infant. Effective
immediately.
LRB9008921JSgc
LRB9008921JSgc
1 AN ACT to amend the Hospital Licensing Act by amending
2 Section 6.18.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Hospital Licensing Act is amended by
6 changing Section 6.18 as follows:
7 (210 ILCS 85/6.18)
8 Sec. 6.18. Instruction on cardiopulmonary resuscitation
9 (CPR) Heimlich maneuver to mothers of newborns. As part of
10 the process of discharging a newborn infant, a hospital may
11 provide the infant's mother with material prepared and
12 provided by the Department instructing the mother on how to
13 properly perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in
14 accordance American Heart Association guidelines the Heimlich
15 maneuver on the infant. The hospital shall answer the
16 mother's questions regarding CPR the maneuver.
17 (Source: P.A. 90-243, eff. 7-28-97.)
18 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
19 becoming law.