Sen. Heather Steans

Filed: 11/30/2010

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1720

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1720 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
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,

 

 

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1shall also include:
2        (a) any facility which is devoted primarily to
3    providing psychiatric and related services and programs
4    for the diagnosis and treatment or care of 2 or more
5    unrelated persons suffering from emotional or nervous
6    diseases;
7        (b) all places where pregnant females are received,
8    cared for, or treated during delivery irrespective of the
9    number of patients received.
10    The term "hospital" includes general and specialized
11hospitals, tuberculosis sanitaria, mental or psychiatric
12hospitals and sanitaria, and includes maternity homes,
13lying-in homes, and homes for unwed mothers in which care is
14given during delivery.
15    The term "hospital" does not include:
16        (1) any person or institution required to be licensed
17    pursuant to the Nursing Home Care Act or the MR/DD
18    Community Care Act;
19        (2) hospitalization or care facilities maintained by
20    the State or any department or agency thereof, where such
21    department or agency has authority under law to establish
22    and enforce standards for the hospitalization or care
23    facilities under its management and control;
24        (3) hospitalization or care facilities maintained by
25    the federal government or agencies thereof;
26        (4) hospitalization or care facilities maintained by

 

 

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1    any university or college established under the laws of
2    this State and supported principally by public funds raised
3    by taxation;
4        (5) any person or facility required to be licensed
5    pursuant to the Alcoholism and Other Drug Abuse and
6    Dependency Act;
7        (6) any facility operated solely by and for persons who
8    rely exclusively upon treatment by spiritual means through
9    prayer, in accordance with the creed or tenets of any
10    well-recognized church or religious denomination;
11        (7) an Alzheimer's disease management center
12    alternative health care model licensed under the
13    Alternative Health Care Delivery Act; or
14        (8) any veterinary hospital or clinic operated by a
15    veterinarian or veterinarians licensed under the
16    Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004 or
17    maintained by a State-supported or publicly funded
18    university or college.
19    (B) "Person" means the State, and any political subdivision
20or municipal corporation, individual, firm, partnership,
21corporation, company, association, or joint stock association,
22or the legal successor thereof.
23    (C) "Department" means the Department of Public Health of
24the State of Illinois.
25    (D) "Director" means the Director of Public Health of the
26State of Illinois.

 

 

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1    (E) "Perinatal" means the period of time between the
2conception of an infant and the end of the first month after
3birth.
4    (F) "Federally designated organ procurement agency" means
5the organ procurement agency designated by the Secretary of the
6U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for the service
7area in which a hospital is located; except that in the case of
8a hospital located in a county adjacent to Wisconsin which
9currently contracts with an organ procurement agency located in
10Wisconsin that is not the organ procurement agency designated
11by the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services for the
12service area in which the hospital is located, if the hospital
13applies for a waiver pursuant to 42 USC 1320b-8(a), it may
14designate an organ procurement agency located in Wisconsin to
15be thereafter deemed its federally designated organ
16procurement agency for the purposes of this Act.
17    (G) "Tissue bank" means any facility or program operating
18in Illinois that is certified by the American Association of
19Tissue Banks or the Eye Bank Association of America and is
20involved in procuring, furnishing, donating, or distributing
21corneas, bones, or other human tissue for the purpose of
22injecting, transfusing, or transplanting any of them into the
23human body. "Tissue bank" does not include a licensed blood
24bank. For the purposes of this Act, "tissue" does not include
25organs.
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1same meaning as the term "campus" as set forth in federal
2Medicare regulations, 42 CFR 413.65.
3(Source: P.A. 96-219, eff. 8-10-09; 96-339, eff. 7-1-10;
496-1000, eff. 7-2-10.)
 
5    (210 ILCS 85/4.6)
6    Sec. 4.6. Additional licensing requirements.
7    (a) Notwithstanding any other law or rule to the contrary,
8the Department may license as a hospital a building that (i) is
9owned or operated by a hospital licensed under this Act, (ii)
10is located in a municipality with a population of less than
1160,000, and (iii) includes a postsurgical recovery care center
12licensed under the Alternative Health Care Delivery Act for a
13period of not less than 2 years, an ambulatory surgical
14treatment center licensed under the Ambulatory Surgical
15Treatment Center Act, and a Freestanding Emergency Center
16licensed under the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems
17Act. Only the components of the building which are currently
18licensed shall be eligible under the provisions of this
19Section.
20    (b) Prior to issuing a license, the Department shall
21inspect the facility and require the facility to meet such of
22the Department's rules relating to the establishment of
23hospitals as the Department determines are appropriate to such
24facility. Once the Department approves the facility and issues
25a hospital license, all other licenses as listed in subsection

 

 

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1(a) above shall be null and void.
2    (c) Only one license may be issued under the authority of
3this Section. No license may be issued after 18 months after
4the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 91st General
5Assembly.
6    (d) Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act
7of the 96th General Assembly, each hospital building or
8facility that is (i) located on the campus of the licensee but
9on a site that is not contiguous, adjacent, or otherwise
10attached to the main hospital building of the campus of the
11licensee, (ii) operated by the licensee, and (iii) provides
12inpatient services to patients at this building or facility
13shall, at a minimum, individually comply with the Department's
14hospital licensing requirements for emergency services. The
15hospital shall submit to the Department a comprehensive plan
16describing the services and operations of each facility or
17building and how common services or operations will be
18coordinated between the various locations. The Department
19shall review the plan and may authorize a waiver granting an
20exemption for compliance with the hospital licensing
21requirements for specific buildings or facilities, including
22requirements for emergency services, provided that the
23hospital has documented which other building or facility under
24its single license provides that service or operation, and that
25doing so would not endanger the public's health, safety, or
26welfare. Nothing in this Section relieves a hospital from the

 

 

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1requirements of the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act.
2(Source: P.A. 91-736, eff. 6-2-00.)
 
3    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
4becoming law.".