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90_SB1722
210 ILCS 85/17 new
Amends the Hospital Licensing Act. Authorizes hospitals
to grant staff privileges to licensed clinical psychologists.
LRB9009623JSmg
LRB9009623JSmg
1 AN ACT to amend the Hospital Licensing Act by adding
2 Section 17.
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 adding Section 17 as follows:
7 (210 ILCS 85/17 new)
8 Sec. 17. Licensed clinical psychologists; staff
9 membership.
10 (a) A hospital may choose to grant to a clinical
11 psychologist licensed under the Clinical Psychologist
12 Licensing Act an opportunity to obtain hospital medical staff
13 privileges to admit, treat, and discharge patients within the
14 scope of the license for the practice of clinical psychology.
15 A hospital may determine whether the applicant's training,
16 experience, and demonstrated competence are sufficient to
17 justify the granting of medical staff privileges or of
18 limited medical staff privileges.
19 (b) If a hospital grants a clinical psychologist
20 licensed under the Clinical Psychologist Licensing Act
21 medical staff privileges or limited medical staff privileges
22 under subsection (a), the psychologist or the hospital shall,
23 before or at the time of hospital admission of a patient,
24 identify an appropriate physician licensed to practice
25 medicine in all its branches with admitting privileges at the
26 hospital who shall be responsible for the medical evaluation
27 and medical management of the patient for the duration of his
28 or her hospitalization.