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1    AN ACT concerning regulation.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Hospital Licensing Act is amended by
5changing Sections 3 and 4.6 as follows:
 
6    (210 ILCS 85/3)
7    Sec. 3. As used in this Act:
8    (A) "Hospital" means any institution, place, building,
9buildings on a campus, or agency, public or private, whether
10organized for profit or not, devoted primarily to the
11maintenance and operation of facilities for the diagnosis and
12treatment or care of 2 or more unrelated persons admitted for
13overnight stay or longer in order to obtain medical, including
14obstetric, psychiatric and nursing, care of illness, disease,
15injury, infirmity, or deformity.
16    The term "hospital", without regard to length of stay,
17shall also include:
18        (a) any facility which is devoted primarily to
19    providing psychiatric and related services and programs
20    for the diagnosis and treatment or care of 2 or more
21    unrelated persons suffering from emotional or nervous
22    diseases;
23        (b) all places where pregnant females are received,

 

 

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1    cared for, or treated during delivery irrespective of the
2    number of patients received.
3    The term "hospital" includes general and specialized
4hospitals, tuberculosis sanitaria, mental or psychiatric
5hospitals and sanitaria, and includes maternity homes,
6lying-in homes, and homes for unwed mothers in which care is
7given during delivery.
8    The term "hospital" does not include:
9        (1) any person or institution required to be licensed
10    pursuant to the Nursing Home Care Act or the MR/DD
11    Community Care Act;
12        (2) hospitalization or care facilities maintained by
13    the State or any department or agency thereof, where such
14    department or agency has authority under law to establish
15    and enforce standards for the hospitalization or care
16    facilities under its management and control;
17        (3) hospitalization or care facilities maintained by
18    the federal government or agencies thereof;
19        (4) hospitalization or care facilities maintained by
20    any university or college established under the laws of
21    this State and supported principally by public funds raised
22    by taxation;
23        (5) any person or facility required to be licensed
24    pursuant to the Alcoholism and Other Drug Abuse and
25    Dependency Act;
26        (6) any facility operated solely by and for persons who

 

 

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1    rely exclusively upon treatment by spiritual means through
2    prayer, in accordance with the creed or tenets of any
3    well-recognized church or religious denomination;
4        (7) an Alzheimer's disease management center
5    alternative health care model licensed under the
6    Alternative Health Care Delivery Act; or
7        (8) any veterinary hospital or clinic operated by a
8    veterinarian or veterinarians licensed under the
9    Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004 or
10    maintained by a State-supported or publicly funded
11    university or college.
12    (B) "Person" means the State, and any political subdivision
13or municipal corporation, individual, firm, partnership,
14corporation, company, association, or joint stock association,
15or the legal successor thereof.
16    (C) "Department" means the Department of Public Health of
17the State of Illinois.
18    (D) "Director" means the Director of Public Health of the
19State of Illinois.
20    (E) "Perinatal" means the period of time between the
21conception of an infant and the end of the first month after
22birth.
23    (F) "Federally designated organ procurement agency" means
24the organ procurement agency designated by the Secretary of the
25U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for the service
26area in which a hospital is located; except that in the case of

 

 

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1a hospital located in a county adjacent to Wisconsin which
2currently contracts with an organ procurement agency located in
3Wisconsin that is not the organ procurement agency designated
4by the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services for the
5service area in which the hospital is located, if the hospital
6applies for a waiver pursuant to 42 USC 1320b-8(a), it may
7designate an organ procurement agency located in Wisconsin to
8be thereafter deemed its federally designated organ
9procurement agency for the purposes of this Act.
10    (G) "Tissue bank" means any facility or program operating
11in Illinois that is certified by the American Association of
12Tissue Banks or the Eye Bank Association of America and is
13involved in procuring, furnishing, donating, or distributing
14corneas, bones, or other human tissue for the purpose of
15injecting, transfusing, or transplanting any of them into the
16human body. "Tissue bank" does not include a licensed blood
17bank. For the purposes of this Act, "tissue" does not include
18organs.
19    (H) "Campus", as this terms applies to operations, has the
20same meaning as the term "campus" as set forth in federal
21Medicare regulations, 42 CFR 413.65.
22(Source: P.A. 96-219, eff. 8-10-09; 96-339, eff. 7-1-10;
2396-1000, eff. 7-2-10.)
 
24    (210 ILCS 85/4.6)
25    Sec. 4.6. Additional licensing requirements.

 

 

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1    (a) Notwithstanding any other law or rule to the contrary,
2the Department may license as a hospital a building that (i) is
3owned or operated by a hospital licensed under this Act, (ii)
4is located in a municipality with a population of less than
560,000, and (iii) includes a postsurgical recovery care center
6licensed under the Alternative Health Care Delivery Act for a
7period of not less than 2 years, an ambulatory surgical
8treatment center licensed under the Ambulatory Surgical
9Treatment Center Act, and a Freestanding Emergency Center
10licensed under the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems
11Act. Only the components of the building which are currently
12licensed shall be eligible under the provisions of this
13Section.
14    (b) Prior to issuing a license, the Department shall
15inspect the facility and require the facility to meet such of
16the Department's rules relating to the establishment of
17hospitals as the Department determines are appropriate to such
18facility. Once the Department approves the facility and issues
19a hospital license, all other licenses as listed in subsection
20(a) above shall be null and void.
21    (c) Only one license may be issued under the authority of
22this Section. No license may be issued after 18 months after
23the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 91st General
24Assembly.
25    (d) Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act
26of the 96th General Assembly, each hospital building or

 

 

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1facility that is (i) located on the campus of the licensee but
2on a site that is not contiguous, adjacent, or otherwise
3attached to the main hospital building of the campus of the
4licensee, (ii) operated by the licensee, and (iii) provides
5inpatient services to patients at this building or facility
6shall, at a minimum, individually comply with the Department's
7hospital licensing requirements for emergency services. The
8hospital shall submit to the Department a comprehensive plan
9describing the services and operations of each facility or
10building and how common services or operations will be
11coordinated between the various locations. The Department
12shall review the plan and may authorize a waiver granting an
13exemption for compliance with the hospital licensing
14requirements for specific buildings or facilities, including
15requirements for emergency services, provided that the
16hospital has documented which other building or facility under
17its single license provides that service or operation, and that
18doing so would not endanger the public's health, safety, or
19welfare. Nothing in this Section relieves a hospital from the
20requirements of the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act.
21(Source: P.A. 91-736, eff. 6-2-00.)
 
22    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
23becoming law.