Public Act 095-0031
 
HB0892 Enrolled LRB095 08539 DRJ 28720 b

    AN ACT concerning regulation.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Nursing Home Care Act is amended by changing
Section 3-202 as follows:
 
    (210 ILCS 45/3-202)  (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4153-202)
    Sec. 3-202. The Department shall prescribe minimum
standards for facilities. These standards shall regulate:
    (1) Location and construction of the facility, including
plumbing, heating, lighting, ventilation, and other physical
conditions which shall ensure the health, safety, and comfort
of residents and their protection from fire hazard;
    (2) Number and qualifications of all personnel, including
management and nursing personnel, having responsibility for
any part of the care given to residents; specifically, the
Department shall establish staffing ratios for facilities
which shall specify the number of staff hours per resident of
care that are needed for professional nursing care for various
types of facilities or areas within facilities;
    (3) All sanitary conditions within the facility and its
surroundings, including water supply, sewage disposal, food
handling, and general hygiene, which shall ensure the health
and comfort of residents;
    (4) Diet related to the needs of each resident based on
good nutritional practice and on recommendations which may be
made by the physicians attending the resident;
    (5) Equipment essential to the health and welfare of the
residents;
    (6) A program of habilitation and rehabilitation for those
residents who would benefit from such programs;
    (7) A program for adequate maintenance of physical plant
and equipment;
    (8) Adequate accommodations, staff and services for the
number and types of residents for whom the facility is licensed
to care, including standards for temperature and relative
humidity within comfort zones determined by the Department
based upon a combination of air temperature, relative humidity
and air movement. Such standards shall also require facility
plans that provide for health and comfort of residents at
medical risk as determined by the attending physician whenever
the temperature and relative humidity are outside such comfort
zones established by the Department. The standards must include
a requirement that areas of a nursing home used by residents of
the nursing home be air conditioned and heated by means of
operable air-conditioning and heating equipment. The areas
subject to this air-conditioning and heating requirement
include, without limitation, bedrooms or common areas such as
sitting rooms, activity rooms, living rooms, community rooms,
and dining rooms. No later than July 1, 2008, the Department
shall submit a report to the General Assembly concerning the
impact of the changes made by this amendatory Act of the 95th
General Assembly;
    (9) Development of evacuation and other appropriate safety
plans for use during weather, health, fire, physical plant,
environmental and national defense emergencies; and
    (10) Maintenance of minimum financial or other resources
necessary to meet the standards established under this Section,
and to operate and conduct the facility in accordance with this
Act.
(Source: P.A. 83-1530.)
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.