HB4092ham001 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Developmental Disabilities and Mental Illness Committee

Filed: 03/04/04

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4092

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4092 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

"Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act is amended by adding Section 4.4 as follows:

(20 ILCS 1705/4.4 new)

Sec. 4.4. Mental health facility data collection.

(a) In order to determine the nature, magnitude, and consequences to persons with mental illness of the closure and downsizing of State-operated mental health facilities and the reduction of resources provided to mental health facilities, the Department shall collect and publish data as set forth in this Section. This data shall be used to inform future decisions regarding the public and private mental health facilities.

(b) The Department shall collect, from all inpatient mental health facilities, statistics concerning the provision of mental health services and shall publish those statistics at least once per year. The statistics collected by the Department shall include the following data:

(1) Admissions or discharges, and average daily census data and legal basis for admission.

(2) Average length of stay for persons discharged by facility, discharge diagnosis, and legal basis for admission.

(3) Commitment petitions filed by facility, county of residence, and outcome.

(4) Petitions for involuntary treatment under Section 2-107.1 of the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code and outcome.

(5) Data collected under Section 2-110.1 of the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code.

(6) Number of persons on conditional release from any State-operated facility pursuant to Section 5-2-4 of the Unified Code of Corrections.

(7) Denials of admission to State-operated facilities pursuant to Section 3-405 of the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code.

(8) From State-operated facilities, admission by number of prior admissions and facility of current admission.

(9) Type of placement for discharged persons by category of facilities, such as: jails, prisons, nursing homes, shelters, community-integrated living arrangements, family or relatives, supported or assisted housing, State-operated facilities, residential facilities, or independent living.

(c) Each mental health facility must provide the Department, at least quarterly, with the information specified in this Section and any information required by any rule promulgated pursuant to this Section. No information shall be provided under this Section except as permitted under the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code and other State and federal laws governing the confidentiality of mental health records, substance abuse records, and other medical records.

(d) The Department may collect and disseminate this information electronically, provided that the Department provides to mental health facilities technical assistance in the collection of this data.

(e) The Department shall consult with other State departments and agencies, including, but not limited to, the Department of Public Health and the Department of Public Aid, to determine to what extent any of the data included in this Section is already being collected by these departments and agencies. The Department shall not require any facility to provide data under this Section directly to the Department if the data is already being provided to another State department or agency. Any data included in this Section that any other State department or agency is collecting shall be provided to the Department for the purposes set forth in this Section. The Department may use information collected pursuant to subsection (b) of Section 12 of the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Confidentiality Act for the purposes of this Section. The Department may form a work group of the Department of Public Health, the Department of Public Aid, and representatives of mental health facilities for the purpose of ensuring coordination and cooperation.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, 2005.".