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 1        AN ACT concerning emergency services.

 2        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section  5.  The Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems
 5    Act is amended by changing Section 32.5 as follows:

 6        (210 ILCS 50/32.5)
 7        Sec. 32.5.  Freestanding Emergency Center;  demonstration
 8    program.
 9        (a)  The  Department  shall  issue an annual Freestanding
10    Emergency Center (FEC) license to any facility that:
11             (1)  is located: (i)(A) in  a  municipality  with  a
12        population  of  75,000  60,000  or fewer inhabitants; (B)
13        within 15 miles of the hospital that owns or controls the
14        FEC; and (C) within 10 miles  of  the  Resource  Hospital
15        affiliated  with  the  FEC  as part of the EMS System; or
16        (ii) either (A) in a municipality  that  has  a  hospital
17        that  has   been  providing  emergency  services  but  is
18        expected  to  close  by  the  end of 1997 and or (B) in a
19        county with a population of more than  350,000  but  less
20        than  525,000  500,000 inhabitants; (iii) within 15 miles
21        of the hospital that owns or controls the FEC;  and  (iv)
22        within  10 miles of the Resource Hospital affiliated with
23        the FEC as part of the EMS System;
24             (2)  is wholly owned or controlled by  an  Associate
25        or Resource Hospital, but is not a part of the hospital's
26        physical plant;
27             (3)  meets  the standards for licensed FECs, adopted
28        by rule of the Department, including, but not limited to:
29                  (A)  facility design, specification, operation,
30             and maintenance standards;
31                  (B)  equipment standards; and
 
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 1                  (C)  the number and qualifications of emergency
 2             medical  personnel  and  other  staff,  which   must
 3             include  at  least  one  board  certified  emergency
 4             physician present at the FEC 24 hours per day.
 5             (4)  limits  its  participation  in  the  EMS System
 6        strictly to receiving a limited number  of  BLS  runs  by
 7        emergency   medical   vehicles   according  to  protocols
 8        developed by  the  Resource  Hospital  within  the  FEC's
 9        designated EMS System and approved by the Project Medical
10        Director and the Department;
11             (5)  provides   comprehensive   emergency  treatment
12        services,  as  defined  in  the  rules  adopted  by   the
13        Department  pursuant  to  the  Hospital Licensing Act, 24
14        hours per day, on an outpatient basis;
15             (6)  provides an ambulance  and  maintains  on  site
16        ambulance  services  staffed with paramedics 24 hours per
17        day;
18             (7)  maintains   helicopter   landing   capabilities
19        approved by appropriate State and federal authorities;
20             (8)  complies with all  State  and  federal  patient
21        rights  provisions,  including,  but  not limited to, the
22        Emergency Medical Treatment Act and the federal Emergency
23        Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act;
24             (9)  maintains a communications system that is fully
25        integrated with its Resource Hospital  within  the  FEC's
26        designated EMS System;
27             (10)  reports   to   the   Department   any  patient
28        transfers from the FEC to a hospital within 48  hours  of
29        the  transfer  plus  any  other  data  determined  to  be
30        relevant by the Department;
31             (11)  submits  to  the  Department,  on  a quarterly
32        basis,  the  FEC's  morbidity  and  mortality  rates  for
33        patients treated at the FEC and other data determined  to
34        be relevant by the Department;
 
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 1             (12)  does not describe itself or hold itself out to
 2        the general public as a full service hospital or hospital
 3        emergency  department  in  its  advertising  or marketing
 4        activities;
 5             (13)  complies with any other rules adopted  by  the
 6        Department under this Act that relate to FECs;
 7             (14)  passes  the  Department's  site inspection for
 8        compliance with the FEC requirements of this Act;
 9             (15)  submits a copy of a  certificate  of  need  or
10        other  permit  issued  by  the Illinois Health Facilities
11        Planning Board indicating that  the  facility  that  will
12        house   the  proposed  FEC  complies  with  State  health
13        planning  laws;  provided,  however,  that  the  Illinois
14        Health  Facilities  Planning  Board  shall   waive   this
15        certificate   of  need  or  permit  requirement  for  any
16        proposed FEC that, as  of  the  effective  date  of  this
17        amendatory  Act of 1996, meets the criteria for providing
18        comprehensive emergency treatment services, as defined by
19        the rules promulgated under the Hospital  Licensing  Act,
20        but is not a licensed hospital;
21             (16)  submits  an  application for designation as an
22        FEC in a manner and form prescribed by the Department  by
23        rule; and
24             (17)  pays  the  annual license fee as determined by
25        the Department by rule; and.
26             (18)  participated in the demonstration program.
27        (b)  The Department shall:
28             (1)  annually  inspect  facilities  of  initial  FEC
29        applicants and licensed FECs, and issue  annual  licenses
30        to   or   annually   relicense   FECs  that  satisfy  the
31        Department's  licensure  requirements  as  set  forth  in
32        subsection (a);
33             (2)  suspend, revoke, refuse to issue, or refuse  to
34        renew  the  license  of  any  FEC,  after  notice  and an
 
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 1        opportunity for a hearing, when the Department finds that
 2        the FEC has failed  to  comply  with  the  standards  and
 3        requirements   of   the  Act  or  rules  adopted  by  the
 4        Department under the Act;
 5             (3)  issue an Emergency Suspension Order for any FEC
 6        when the Director or his or her designee  has  determined
 7        that   the  continued  operation  of  the  FEC  poses  an
 8        immediate  and  serious  danger  to  the  public  health,
 9        safety, and welfare.  An opportunity for a hearing  shall
10        be promptly initiated after an Emergency Suspension Order
11        has been issued; and
12             (4)  adopt   rules   as  needed  to  implement  this
13        Section.
14        (c)  The FEC demonstration program shall be conducted for
15    an initial review period concluding  on  September  1,  2001.
16    If,   by  that  date,  the  Department  determines  that  the
17    demonstration program is operating  in  a  manner  consistent
18    with the purposes of this Act, the program shall continue and
19    sunset  on  September 1, 2003.  The Department shall submit a
20    report concerning  the  effectiveness  of  the  demonstration
21    program to the General Assembly by September 1, 2002.
22        An  FEC  license  issued  pursuant  to this Section shall
23    expire upon the termination of the demonstration program.
24    (Source: P.A. 90-67, eff. 7-8-97; 91-385, eff. 7-30-99.)