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1 AN ACT concerning academic medicine.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Excellence in Academic Medicine Act is
5 amended by changing Sections 15, 20, 30, and 60 and by adding
6 Section 35 as follows:
7 (30 ILCS 775/15)
8 Sec. 15. Definitions. As used in this Act:
9 "Academic medical center hospital" means a hospital
10 located in Illinois which is either (i) under common
11 ownership with the college of medicine of a college or
12 university or (ii) a free-standing hospital in which the
13 majority of the clinical chiefs of service are department
14 chairmen in an affiliated medical school.
15 "Academic medical center children's hospital" means a
16 children's hospital which is separately incorporated and
17 non-integrated into the academic medical center hospital but
18 which is the pediatric partner for an academic medical center
19 hospital and which serves as the primary teaching hospital
20 for pediatrics for its affiliated medical school; children's
21 hospitals which are separately incorporated but integrated
22 into the academic medical center hospital are considered part
23 of the academic medical center hospital.
24 "Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area academic
25 medical center hospital" means an academic medical center
26 hospital located in the Chicago Medicare Metropolitan
27 Statistical Area.
28 "Non-Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area
29 academic medical center hospital" means an academic medical
30 center hospital located outside the Chicago Medicare
31 Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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1 "Qualified Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area
2 academic medical center hospital" means any Chicago Medicare
3 Metropolitan Statistical Area academic medical center
4 hospital that either directly or in connection with its
5 affiliated medical school receives in excess of $8,000,000 in
6 grants or contracts from the National Institutes of Health
7 during the calendar year preceding the beginning of the State
8 fiscal year; except that for the purposes of Section 25, the
9 term also includes the entity specified in subsection (e) of
10 that Section, and for the purposes of Section 30, the term
11 also includes the primary teaching hospitals for the
12 University of Illinois School of Medicine in the City of Park
13 Ridge and the Village of Oak Lawn.
14 "Qualified Non-Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical
15 Area academic medical center hospital" means the primary
16 teaching hospital for the University of Illinois School of
17 Medicine at Peoria, and the primary teaching hospital for the
18 University of Illinois School of Medicine at Rockford, the
19 primary teaching hospital for the University of Illinois
20 School of Medicine at Urbana, and the primary teaching
21 hospitals for Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
22 in Springfield, and the primary teaching hospital for
23 Southern Illinois University School of Medicine at
24 Carbondale.
25 "Qualified academic medical center hospital" means (i) a
26 qualified Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area
27 academic medical center hospital, (ii) a qualified
28 Non-Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area academic
29 medical center hospital, or (iii) an academic medical center
30 children's hospital.
31 "Qualified programs" include:
32 (i) Thoracic Transplantation: heart and lung, in
33 particular;
34 (ii) Cancer: particularly biologic modifiers of
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1 tumor response, and mechanisms of drug resistance in
2 cancer therapy;
3 (iii) Shock/Burn: development of biological
4 alternatives to skin for grafting in burn injury, and
5 research in mechanisms of shock and tissue injury in
6 severe injury;
7 (iv) Abdominal transplantation: kidney, liver,
8 pancreas, and development of islet cell and small bowel
9 transplantation technologies;
10 (v) Minimally invasive surgery: particularly
11 laparoscopic surgery;
12 (vi) High performance medical computing:
13 telemedicine and teleradiology;
14 (vii) Transmyocardial laser revascularization: a
15 laser creates holes in heart muscles to allow new blood
16 flow;
17 (viii) Pet scanning: viewing how organs function
18 (CT and MRI only allow viewing of the structure of an
19 organ);
20 (ix) Strokes in the African-American community:
21 particularly risk factors for cerebral vascular accident
22 (strokes) in the African-American community at much
23 higher risk than the general population;
24 (x) Neurosurgery: particularly focusing on
25 interventional neuroradiology;
26 (xi) Comprehensive eye center: including further
27 development in pediatric eye trauma;
28 (xii) Cancers: particularly melanoma, head and
29 neck;
30 (xiii) Pediatric cancer;
31 (xiv) Invasive pediatric cardiology;
32 (xv) Pediatric organ transplantation:
33 transplantation of solid organs, marrow, and other stem
34 cells; and
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1 (xvi) Such other programs as may be identified.
2 (Source: P.A. 89-506, eff. 7-3-96.)
3 (30 ILCS 775/20)
4 Sec. 20. Establishment of Funds.
5 (a) The Medical Research and Development Fund is created
6 in the State Treasury to which the General Assembly may from
7 time to time appropriate funds and from which the Comptroller
8 shall pay amounts as authorized by law.
9 (i) The following accounts are created in the
10 Medical Research and Development Fund: The National
11 Institutes of Health Account; the Philanthropic Medical
12 Research Account; and the Market Medical Research
13 Account.
14 (ii) Funds appropriated to the Medical Research and
15 Development Fund shall be assigned in equal amounts to
16 each account within the Fund, subject to transferability
17 of funds under subsection (c) of Section 25.
18 (b) The Post-Tertiary Clinical Services Fund is created
19 in the State Treasury to which the General Assembly may from
20 time to time appropriate funds and from which the Comptroller
21 shall pay amounts as authorized by law.
22 (c) The Centers for Medical Research Fund is created in
23 the State treasury to which the General Assembly may from
24 time to time appropriate funds and from which the Comptroller
25 shall pay amounts as authorized by law.
26 (Source: P.A. 89-506, eff. 7-3-96.)
27 (30 ILCS 775/30)
28 Sec. 30. Post-Tertiary Clinical Services Program. The
29 State shall provide incentives to develop and enhance
30 post-tertiary clinical services. Qualified academic medical
31 center hospitals as defined in Section 15 may receive funding
32 under the Post-Tertiary Clinical Services Program for up to 3
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1 qualified programs as defined in Section 15 in any given
2 year; however, qualified academic medical center hospitals
3 may receive continued funding for previously funded qualified
4 programs rather than receive funding for a new program so
5 long as the number of qualified programs receiving funding
6 does not exceed 3. Subject to the restrictions of Section
7 60, each qualified academic medical center hospital as
8 defined in Section 15 shall receive an equal percentage of
9 the Post-Tertiary Clinical Services Fund to be used in the
10 funding of qualified programs. One quarter of the amount
11 payable to each qualified academic medical center hospital
12 shall be paid on the fifteenth working day after July 1,
13 October 1, January 1, and March 1.
14 (Source: P.A. 89-506, eff. 7-3-96.)
15 (30 ILCS 775/35 new)
16 Sec. 35. The Centers for Medical Research Program. The
17 State shall provide financial incentives to encourage private
18 and federal funding for biomedical and biotech research. Any
19 hospital that is eligible to receive funds from either the
20 Medical Research and Development Fund or the Post-Tertiary
21 Clinical Services Fund shall receive a percentage of the
22 moneys available for distribution from the Centers for
23 Medical Research Fund, a special fund in the State treasury,
24 equal to that hospital's percentage of the total contracts
25 and grants awarded to all hospitals applying for this
26 Program.
27 (30 ILCS 775/60)
28 Sec. 60. Restriction on funds. No academic medical
29 center hospital shall be eligible for payments from the
30 Medical Research and Development Fund unless the academic
31 medical center hospital qualifies under Section 15 as a
32 qualified Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area
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1 academic medical center hospital which in connection with its
2 affiliated medical school received at least $8,000,000 in the
3 preceding calendar year in grants or contracts from the
4 National Institutes of Health; except that this restriction
5 does not apply to the entity specified in subsection (e) of
6 Section 25.
7 Beginning with the State fiscal year beginning on July 1,
8 2001 and for each State fiscal year thereafter, the primary
9 teaching hospital for the University of Illinois School of
10 Medicine at Urbana, the primary teaching hospital for
11 Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and the primary
12 teaching hospitals for the University of Illinois School of
13 Medicine in the City of Park Ridge and the Village of Oak
14 Lawn are eligible for payments from the Post-Tertiary
15 Clinical Services Fund only with respect to amounts
16 appropriated in that State fiscal year by the General
17 Assembly above $11,800,000. The eligibility of these
18 hospitals, for the amounts from the Post-Tertiary Clinical
19 Services Fund above $11,800,000 is on an equal basis with all
20 other eligible academic medical center hospitals.
21 (Source: P.A. 89-506, eff. 7-3-96.)
22 Section 10. The State Finance Act is amended by adding
23 Section 5.545 as follows:
24 (30 ILCS 105/5.545 new)
25 Sec. 5.545. The Centers for Medical Research Fund.
26 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
27 becoming law.