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1     AN ACT concerning mental health.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental
5 Disabilities Administrative Act is amended by adding Section
6 4.4 as follows:
 
7     (20 ILCS 1705/4.4 new)
8     Sec. 4.4. Mental health facility data collection.
9     (a) In order to determine the nature, magnitude, and
10 consequences to persons with mental illness of future decisions
11 related to the funding of public and private mental health
12 facilities and services, the Department shall collect and
13 publish data as set forth in this Section. This data shall be
14 used to inform future decisions regarding the public and
15 private mental health facilities.
16     (b) The Department shall collect, from all inpatient mental
17 health facilities, statistics concerning the provision of
18 mental health services and shall publish those statistics at
19 least once per year. The statistics collected by the Department
20 shall include the following data:
21         (1) Admissions or discharges, and average daily census
22     data and legal basis for admission.
23         (2) Average length of stay for persons discharged by
24     facility, discharge diagnosis, and legal basis for
25     admission.
26         (3) Commitment petitions filed by facility, county of
27     residence, and outcome.
28         (4) Petitions for involuntary treatment under Section
29     2-107.1 of the Mental Health and Developmental
30     Disabilities Code and outcome.
31         (5) Data collected under Section 2-110.1 of the Mental
32     Health and Developmental Disabilities Code.

 

 

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1         (6) Number of persons on conditional release from any
2     State-operated facility pursuant to Section 5-2-4 of the
3     Unified Code of Corrections.
4         (7) Denials of admission to State-operated facilities
5     pursuant to Section 3-405 of the Mental Health and
6     Developmental Disabilities Code.
7         (8) From State-operated facilities, admission by
8     number of prior admissions and facility of current
9     admission.
10         (9) Type of placement for discharged persons by
11     category of facilities, such as: jails, prisons, nursing
12     homes, shelters, community-integrated living arrangements,
13     family or relatives, supported or assisted housing,
14     State-operated facilities, residential facilities, or
15     independent living.
16     (c) Each mental health facility must provide the
17 Department, at least quarterly, with the information specified
18 in this Section and any information required by any rule
19 promulgated pursuant to this Section. No information shall be
20 provided under this Section except as permitted under the
21 Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code and other
22 State and federal laws governing the confidentiality of mental
23 health records, substance abuse records, and other medical
24 records.
25     (d) The Department may collect and disseminate this
26 information electronically, provided that the Department
27 provides to mental health facilities technical assistance in
28 the collection of this data.
29     (e) The Department shall consult with other State
30 departments and agencies, including, but not limited to, the
31 Department of Public Health and the Department of Public Aid,
32 to determine to what extent any of the data included in this
33 Section is already being collected by these departments and
34 agencies. The Department shall not require any facility to
35 provide data under this Section directly to the Department if
36 the data is already being provided to another State department

 

 

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1 or agency. Any data included in this Section that any other
2 State department or agency is collecting shall be provided to
3 the Department for the purposes set forth in this Section. The
4 Department may use information collected pursuant to
5 subsection (b) of Section 12 of the Mental Health and
6 Developmental Disabilities Confidentiality Act for the
7 purposes of this Section. The Department may form a work group
8 of the Department of Public Health, the Department of Public
9 Aid, and representatives of mental health facilities for the
10 purpose of ensuring coordination and cooperation.
 
11     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1,
12 2005.