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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 Nursing Home Care Act is amended by changing
5Sections 3-208 and 3-304.1 as follows:
 
6    (210 ILCS 45/3-208)  (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4153-208)
7    Sec. 3-208. (a) Each licensee shall file annually, or more
8often as the Director shall by rule prescribe, an attested
9financial statement. The Director may order an audited
10financial statement of a particular facility by an auditor of
11the Director's choice, provided the cost of such audit is paid
12by the Department.
13    (b) No public funds shall be expended for the maintenance
14of any resident in a facility which has failed to file the
15financial statement required under this Section and no public
16funds shall be paid to or on behalf of a facility which has
17failed to file a statement.
18    (c) The Director of Public Health and the Director of
19Healthcare and Family Services shall promulgate under Sections
203-801 and 3-802, one set of regulations for the filing of these
21financial statements, and shall provide in these regulations
22for forms, required information, intervals and dates of filing
23and such other provisions as they may deem necessary.

 

 

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1    (c-5) A facility which is owned by a chain organization as
2defined by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services shall
3submit annually to the Department a copy of the Home Office
4Cost Statement required to be submitted by the home office of
5the chain to the United States Department of Health and Human
6Services. This Home Office Cost Statement contains
7proprietary, privileged, and confidential information that
8shall not be placed on the World Wide Web. Any request from the
9public received by any public agency to disclose this Home
10Office Cost Statement shall be subject to the provisions of the
11Freedom of Information Act.
12    (d) The Director of Public Health and the Director of
13Healthcare and Family Services shall seek the advice and
14comments of other State and federal agencies which require the
15submission of financial data from facilities licensed under
16this Act and shall incorporate the information requirements of
17these agencies so as to impose the least possible burden on
18licensees. No other State agency may require submission of
19financial data except as expressly authorized by law or as
20necessary to meet requirements of federal statutes or
21regulations. Information obtained under this Section shall be
22made available, upon request, by the Department to any other
23State agency or legislative commission to which such
24information is necessary for investigations or required for the
25purposes of State or federal law or regulation.
26(Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)
 

 

 

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1    (210 ILCS 45/3-304.1)
2    Sec. 3-304.1. Public computer access to information.
3    (a) The Department must make information regarding nursing
4homes in the State available to the public in electronic form
5on the World Wide Web, including all of the following
6information:
7        (1) who regulates nursing homes;
8        (2) information in the possession of the Department
9    that is listed in Sections 3-210 and 3-304;
10        (3) deficiencies and plans of correction;
11        (4) enforcement remedies;
12        (5) penalty letters;
13        (6) designation of penalty monies;
14        (7) the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services'
15    Health Care Financing Administration special projects or
16    federally required inspections;
17        (8) advisory standards;
18        (9) deficiency-free surveys;
19        (10) enforcement actions and enforcement summaries;
20    and
21        (11) distressed facilities; .
22        (12) a link to the most recent facility cost report
23    filed with the Department of Healthcare and Family
24    Services;
25        (13) a link to the most recent Consumer Choice

 

 

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1    Information Report filed with the Department on Aging;
2        (14) whether the facility is part of a chain; the
3    facility shall be deemed part of a chain if it meets
4    criteria established by the United States Department of
5    Health and Human Services that identify it as owned by a
6    chain organization;
7        (15) whether the facility is a for-profit or
8    not-for-profit facility; and
9        (16) whether the facility is or is part of a continuing
10    care retirement community.
11    (b) No fee or other charge may be imposed by the Department
12as a condition of accessing the information.
13    (c) The electronic public access provided through the World
14Wide Web shall be in addition to any other electronic or print
15distribution of the information.
16    (d) The information shall be made available as provided in
17this Section in the shortest practicable time after it is
18publicly available in any other form.
19(Source: P.A. 96-1372, eff. 7-29-10.)