Section 545.95  Emergency Contraception

a)         Every hospital providing services to sexual assault survivors in accordance with a plan approved under Section 545.35 of this Part must develop a protocol for providing emergency contraception information and treatment to sexual assault survivors.  (Section 2.2(b) of the Act)  

b)         The Department shall approve the protocol if it finds that the implementation of the protocol would provide sufficient protection for survivors of sexual assault and if the protocol provides for the following as soon as possible and, in any event, no later than 12 hours after the sexual assault survivor presents herself/himself at the hospital for emergency care:

1)       medically and factually accurate written and  oral information about emergency contraception;

2)       the indications and counter-indications and risks associated with the use of emergency contraception;

3)       a description of how and when victims may be provided emergency contraception upon the written order of a physician, an advanced practice nurse who has a written collaborative agreement with a collaborating physician that authorizes prescription of emergency contraception or who possesses clinical privileges recommended by the hospital medical staff and granted by the hospital as authorized by the Nurse Practice Act, or a physician assistant who has been delegated authority to prescribe emergency contraception (Section 2.2(b) of the Act); and

4)       appropriate referral to a physician.

c)         The hospital shall implement the protocol upon approval by the Department.  (Section 2.2(b) of the Act)

d)         The Department shall produce medically and factually accurate written materials that all treatment hospitals shall provide to each female sexual assault survivor of childbearing age.  

(Source:  Amended at 33 Ill. Reg. 14588, effective October 9, 2009)