Full Text of HB5998 96th General Assembly
HB5998sam001 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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Sen. James F. Clayborne, Jr.
Filed: 4/19/2010
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5998
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5998 by replacing | 3 |
| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act is | 5 |
| amended by changing Sections 10, 20, 30, and 110 as follows: | 6 |
| (210 ILCS 9/10) | 7 |
| (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 96-339 ) | 8 |
| Sec. 10. Definitions. For purposes of this Act: | 9 |
| "Activities of daily living" means eating, dressing, | 10 |
| bathing, toileting,
transferring, or personal
hygiene. | 11 |
| "Advisory Board" means the Assisted Living and Shared | 12 |
| Housing Standards and Quality of Life Advisory Board. | 13 |
| "Assisted living establishment" or "establishment" means a | 14 |
| home, building,
residence, or any
other place where sleeping | 15 |
| accommodations are provided for at least 3
unrelated adults,
at | 16 |
| least 80% of whom are 55 years of age or older and where the |
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| following are
provided
consistent with the purposes of this | 2 |
| Act: | 3 |
| (1) services consistent with a social model that is | 4 |
| based on the premise
that the
resident's unit in assisted | 5 |
| living and shared housing is his or her own home; | 6 |
| (2) community-based residential care for persons who | 7 |
| need assistance with
activities of
daily living, including | 8 |
| personal, supportive, and intermittent
health-related | 9 |
| services available 24 hours per day, if needed, to meet the
| 10 |
| scheduled
and
unscheduled needs of a resident; | 11 |
| (3) mandatory services, whether provided directly by | 12 |
| the establishment or
by another
entity arranged for by the | 13 |
| establishment, with the consent of the resident or
| 14 |
| resident's
representative; and | 15 |
| (4) a physical environment that is a homelike
setting | 16 |
| that
includes the following and such other elements as | 17 |
| established by the Department
in
conjunction with the | 18 |
| Assisted Living and Shared Housing Standards and Quality of | 19 |
| Life Advisory Board :
individual living units each of which | 20 |
| shall accommodate small kitchen
appliances
and contain | 21 |
| private bathing, washing, and toilet facilities, or | 22 |
| private washing
and
toilet facilities with a common bathing | 23 |
| room readily accessible to each
resident.
Units shall be | 24 |
| maintained for single occupancy except in cases in which 2
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| residents
choose to share a unit. Sufficient common space | 26 |
| shall exist to permit
individual and
group activities. |
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| "Assisted living establishment" or "establishment" does | 2 |
| not mean any of the
following: | 3 |
| (1) A home, institution, or similar place operated by | 4 |
| the federal
government or the
State of Illinois. | 5 |
| (2) A long term care facility licensed under the | 6 |
| Nursing Home Care Act.
However, a
long term care facility | 7 |
| may convert distinct parts of the facility to assisted
| 8 |
| living. If
the long term care facility elects to do so, the | 9 |
| facility shall retain the
Certificate of
Need for its | 10 |
| nursing and sheltered care beds that were converted. | 11 |
| (3) A hospital, sanitarium, or other institution, the | 12 |
| principal activity
or business of
which is the diagnosis, | 13 |
| care, and treatment of human illness and that is
required | 14 |
| to
be licensed under the Hospital Licensing Act. | 15 |
| (4) A facility for child care as defined in the Child | 16 |
| Care Act of 1969. | 17 |
| (5) A community living facility as defined in the | 18 |
| Community Living
Facilities
Licensing Act. | 19 |
| (6) A nursing home or sanitarium operated solely by and | 20 |
| for persons who
rely
exclusively upon treatment by | 21 |
| spiritual means through prayer in accordance with
the creed | 22 |
| or tenants of a well-recognized church or religious | 23 |
| denomination. | 24 |
| (7) A facility licensed by the Department of Human | 25 |
| Services as a
community-integrated living arrangement as | 26 |
| defined in the Community-Integrated
Living
Arrangements |
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| Licensure and Certification Act. | 2 |
| (8) A supportive residence licensed under the | 3 |
| Supportive Residences
Licensing Act. | 4 |
| (9) The portion of a life care facility as defined in | 5 |
| the Life Care Facilities Act not licensed as an assisted | 6 |
| living establishment under this Act; a
life care facility | 7 |
| may
apply under this Act to convert sections of the | 8 |
| community to assisted living. | 9 |
| (10) A free-standing hospice facility licensed under | 10 |
| the Hospice Program
Licensing Act. | 11 |
| (11) A shared housing establishment. | 12 |
| (12) A supportive living facility as described in | 13 |
| Section 5-5.01a of the
Illinois Public Aid
Code. | 14 |
| "Department" means the Department of Public Health. | 15 |
| "Director" means the Director of Public Health. | 16 |
| "Emergency situation" means imminent danger of death or | 17 |
| serious physical
harm to a
resident of an establishment. | 18 |
| "License" means any of the following types of licenses | 19 |
| issued to an applicant
or licensee by the
Department: | 20 |
| (1) "Probationary license" means a license issued to an | 21 |
| applicant or
licensee
that has not
held a license under | 22 |
| this Act prior to its application or pursuant to a license
| 23 |
| transfer in accordance with Section 50 of this Act. | 24 |
| (2) "Regular license" means a license issued by the | 25 |
| Department to an
applicant or
licensee that is in
| 26 |
| substantial compliance with this Act and any rules |
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| promulgated
under this Act. | 2 |
| "Licensee" means a person, agency, association, | 3 |
| corporation, partnership, or
organization that
has been issued | 4 |
| a license to operate an assisted living or shared housing
| 5 |
| establishment. | 6 |
| "Licensed health care professional" means a registered | 7 |
| professional nurse,
an advanced practice nurse, a physician | 8 |
| assistant, and a licensed practical
nurse. | 9 |
| "Mandatory services" include the following: | 10 |
| (1) 3 meals per day available to the residents prepared | 11 |
| by the
establishment or an
outside contractor; | 12 |
| (2) housekeeping services including, but not limited | 13 |
| to, vacuuming,
dusting, and
cleaning the resident's unit; | 14 |
| (3) personal laundry and linen services available to | 15 |
| the residents
provided
or arranged
for by the | 16 |
| establishment; | 17 |
| (4) security provided 24 hours each day including, but | 18 |
| not limited to,
locked entrances
or building or contract | 19 |
| security personnel; | 20 |
| (5) an emergency communication response system, which | 21 |
| is a procedure in
place 24
hours each day by which a | 22 |
| resident can notify building management, an emergency
| 23 |
| response vendor, or others able to respond to his or her | 24 |
| need for assistance;
and | 25 |
| (6) assistance with activities of daily living as | 26 |
| required by each
resident. |
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| "Negotiated risk" is the process by which a resident, or | 2 |
| his or her
representative,
may formally
negotiate with | 3 |
| providers what risks each are willing and unwilling to assume | 4 |
| in
service provision
and the resident's living environment. The | 5 |
| provider assures that the resident
and the
resident's | 6 |
| representative, if any, are informed of the risks of these | 7 |
| decisions
and of
the potential
consequences of assuming these | 8 |
| risks. | 9 |
| "Owner" means the individual, partnership, corporation, | 10 |
| association, or other
person who owns
an assisted living or | 11 |
| shared housing establishment. In the event an assisted
living | 12 |
| or shared
housing establishment is operated by a person who | 13 |
| leases or manages the
physical plant, which is
owned by another | 14 |
| person, "owner" means the person who operates the assisted
| 15 |
| living or shared
housing establishment, except that if the | 16 |
| person who owns the physical plant is
an affiliate of the
| 17 |
| person who operates the assisted living or shared housing | 18 |
| establishment and has
significant
control over the day to day | 19 |
| operations of the assisted living or shared housing
| 20 |
| establishment, the
person who owns the physical plant shall | 21 |
| incur jointly and severally with the
owner all liabilities
| 22 |
| imposed on an owner under this Act. | 23 |
| "Physician" means a person licensed
under the Medical | 24 |
| Practice Act of 1987
to practice medicine in all of its
| 25 |
| branches. | 26 |
| "Resident" means a person residing in an assisted living or |
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| shared housing
establishment. | 2 |
| "Resident's representative" means a person, other than the | 3 |
| owner, agent, or
employee of an
establishment or of the health | 4 |
| care provider unless related to the resident,
designated in | 5 |
| writing by a
resident to be his or her
representative. This | 6 |
| designation may be accomplished through the Illinois
Power of | 7 |
| Attorney Act, pursuant to the guardianship process under the | 8 |
| Probate
Act of 1975, or pursuant to an executed designation of | 9 |
| representative form
specified by the Department. | 10 |
| "Self" means the individual or the individual's designated | 11 |
| representative. | 12 |
| "Shared housing establishment" or "establishment" means a | 13 |
| publicly or
privately operated free-standing
residence for 16 | 14 |
| or fewer persons, at least 80% of whom are 55
years of age or | 15 |
| older
and who are unrelated to the owners and one manager of | 16 |
| the residence, where
the following are provided: | 17 |
| (1) services consistent with a social model that is | 18 |
| based on the premise
that the resident's unit is his or her | 19 |
| own home; | 20 |
| (2) community-based residential care for persons who | 21 |
| need assistance with
activities of daily living, including | 22 |
| housing and personal, supportive, and
intermittent | 23 |
| health-related services available 24 hours per day, if | 24 |
| needed, to
meet the scheduled and unscheduled needs of a | 25 |
| resident; and | 26 |
| (3) mandatory services, whether provided directly by |
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| the establishment or
by another entity arranged for by the | 2 |
| establishment, with the consent of the
resident or the | 3 |
| resident's representative. | 4 |
| "Shared housing establishment" or "establishment" does not | 5 |
| mean any of the
following: | 6 |
| (1) A home, institution, or similar place operated by | 7 |
| the federal
government or the State of Illinois. | 8 |
| (2) A long term care facility licensed under the | 9 |
| Nursing Home Care Act.
A long term care facility may, | 10 |
| however, convert sections of the facility to
assisted | 11 |
| living. If the long term care facility elects to do so, the | 12 |
| facility
shall retain the Certificate of Need for its | 13 |
| nursing beds that were
converted. | 14 |
| (3) A hospital, sanitarium, or other institution, the | 15 |
| principal activity
or business of which is the diagnosis, | 16 |
| care, and treatment of human illness and
that is required | 17 |
| to be licensed under the Hospital Licensing Act. | 18 |
| (4) A facility for child care as defined in the Child | 19 |
| Care Act of 1969. | 20 |
| (5) A community living facility as defined in the | 21 |
| Community Living
Facilities Licensing Act. | 22 |
| (6) A nursing home or sanitarium operated solely by and | 23 |
| for persons who
rely exclusively upon treatment by | 24 |
| spiritual means through prayer in accordance
with the creed | 25 |
| or tenants of a well-recognized church or religious
| 26 |
| denomination. |
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| (7) A facility licensed by the Department of Human | 2 |
| Services as a
community-integrated
living arrangement as | 3 |
| defined in the Community-Integrated
Living Arrangements | 4 |
| Licensure and Certification Act. | 5 |
| (8) A supportive residence licensed under the | 6 |
| Supportive Residences
Licensing Act. | 7 |
| (9) A life care facility as defined in the Life Care | 8 |
| Facilities Act; a
life care facility may apply under this | 9 |
| Act to convert sections of the
community to assisted | 10 |
| living. | 11 |
| (10) A free-standing hospice facility licensed under | 12 |
| the Hospice Program
Licensing Act. | 13 |
| (11) An assisted living establishment. | 14 |
| (12) A supportive living facility as described in | 15 |
| Section 5-5.01a of the
Illinois Public Aid Code. | 16 |
| "Total assistance" means that staff or another individual | 17 |
| performs the entire
activity of daily
living without | 18 |
| participation by the resident. | 19 |
| (Source: P.A. 95-216, eff. 8-16-07.) | 20 |
| (Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 96-339 ) | 21 |
| Sec. 10. Definitions. For purposes of this Act: | 22 |
| "Activities of daily living" means eating, dressing, | 23 |
| bathing, toileting,
transferring, or personal
hygiene. | 24 |
| "Advisory Board" means the Assisted Living and Shared | 25 |
| Housing Standards and Quality of Life Advisory Board. |
|
|
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| "Assisted living establishment" or "establishment" means a | 2 |
| home, building,
residence, or any
other place where sleeping | 3 |
| accommodations are provided for at least 3
unrelated adults,
at | 4 |
| least 80% of whom are 55 years of age or older and where the | 5 |
| following are
provided
consistent with the purposes of this | 6 |
| Act: | 7 |
| (1) services consistent with a social model that is | 8 |
| based on the premise
that the
resident's unit in assisted | 9 |
| living and shared housing is his or her own home; | 10 |
| (2) community-based residential care for persons who | 11 |
| need assistance with
activities of
daily living, including | 12 |
| personal, supportive, and intermittent
health-related | 13 |
| services available 24 hours per day, if needed, to meet the
| 14 |
| scheduled
and
unscheduled needs of a resident; | 15 |
| (3) mandatory services, whether provided directly by | 16 |
| the establishment or
by another
entity arranged for by the | 17 |
| establishment, with the consent of the resident or
| 18 |
| resident's
representative; and | 19 |
| (4) a physical environment that is a homelike
setting | 20 |
| that
includes the following and such other elements as | 21 |
| established by the Department
in
conjunction with the | 22 |
| Assisted Living and Shared Housing Standards and Quality of | 23 |
| Life Advisory Board :
individual living units each of which | 24 |
| shall accommodate small kitchen
appliances
and contain | 25 |
| private bathing, washing, and toilet facilities, or | 26 |
| private washing
and
toilet facilities with a common bathing |
|
|
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| room readily accessible to each
resident.
Units shall be | 2 |
| maintained for single occupancy except in cases in which 2
| 3 |
| residents
choose to share a unit. Sufficient common space | 4 |
| shall exist to permit
individual and
group activities. | 5 |
| "Assisted living establishment" or "establishment" does | 6 |
| not mean any of the
following: | 7 |
| (1) A home, institution, or similar place operated by | 8 |
| the federal
government or the
State of Illinois. | 9 |
| (2) A long term care facility licensed under the | 10 |
| Nursing Home Care Act or a facility licensed under the | 11 |
| MR/DD Community Care Act.
However, a
facility licensed | 12 |
| under either of those Acts may convert distinct parts of | 13 |
| the facility to assisted
living. If
the facility elects to | 14 |
| do so, the facility shall retain the
Certificate of
Need | 15 |
| for its nursing and sheltered care beds that were | 16 |
| converted. | 17 |
| (3) A hospital, sanitarium, or other institution, the | 18 |
| principal activity
or business of
which is the diagnosis, | 19 |
| care, and treatment of human illness and that is
required | 20 |
| to
be licensed under the Hospital Licensing Act. | 21 |
| (4) A facility for child care as defined in the Child | 22 |
| Care Act of 1969. | 23 |
| (5) A community living facility as defined in the | 24 |
| Community Living
Facilities
Licensing Act. | 25 |
| (6) A nursing home or sanitarium operated solely by and | 26 |
| for persons who
rely
exclusively upon treatment by |
|
|
|
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| spiritual means through prayer in accordance with
the creed | 2 |
| or tenants of a well-recognized church or religious | 3 |
| denomination. | 4 |
| (7) A facility licensed by the Department of Human | 5 |
| Services as a
community-integrated living arrangement as | 6 |
| defined in the Community-Integrated
Living
Arrangements | 7 |
| Licensure and Certification Act. | 8 |
| (8) A supportive residence licensed under the | 9 |
| Supportive Residences
Licensing Act. | 10 |
| (9) The portion of a life care facility as defined in | 11 |
| the Life Care Facilities Act not licensed as an assisted | 12 |
| living establishment under this Act; a
life care facility | 13 |
| may
apply under this Act to convert sections of the | 14 |
| community to assisted living. | 15 |
| (10) A free-standing hospice facility licensed under | 16 |
| the Hospice Program
Licensing Act. | 17 |
| (11) A shared housing establishment. | 18 |
| (12) A supportive living facility as described in | 19 |
| Section 5-5.01a of the
Illinois Public Aid
Code. | 20 |
| "Department" means the Department of Public Health. | 21 |
| "Director" means the Director of Public Health. | 22 |
| "Emergency situation" means imminent danger of death or | 23 |
| serious physical
harm to a
resident of an establishment. | 24 |
| "License" means any of the following types of licenses | 25 |
| issued to an applicant
or licensee by the
Department: | 26 |
| (1) "Probationary license" means a license issued to an |
|
|
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| applicant or
licensee
that has not
held a license under | 2 |
| this Act prior to its application or pursuant to a license
| 3 |
| transfer in accordance with Section 50 of this Act. | 4 |
| (2) "Regular license" means a license issued by the | 5 |
| Department to an
applicant or
licensee that is in
| 6 |
| substantial compliance with this Act and any rules | 7 |
| promulgated
under this Act. | 8 |
| "Licensee" means a person, agency, association, | 9 |
| corporation, partnership, or
organization that
has been issued | 10 |
| a license to operate an assisted living or shared housing
| 11 |
| establishment. | 12 |
| "Licensed health care professional" means a registered | 13 |
| professional nurse,
an advanced practice nurse, a physician | 14 |
| assistant, and a licensed practical
nurse. | 15 |
| "Mandatory services" include the following: | 16 |
| (1) 3 meals per day available to the residents prepared | 17 |
| by the
establishment or an
outside contractor; | 18 |
| (2) housekeeping services including, but not limited | 19 |
| to, vacuuming,
dusting, and
cleaning the resident's unit; | 20 |
| (3) personal laundry and linen services available to | 21 |
| the residents
provided
or arranged
for by the | 22 |
| establishment; | 23 |
| (4) security provided 24 hours each day including, but | 24 |
| not limited to,
locked entrances
or building or contract | 25 |
| security personnel; | 26 |
| (5) an emergency communication response system, which |
|
|
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| is a procedure in
place 24
hours each day by which a | 2 |
| resident can notify building management, an emergency
| 3 |
| response vendor, or others able to respond to his or her | 4 |
| need for assistance;
and | 5 |
| (6) assistance with activities of daily living as | 6 |
| required by each
resident. | 7 |
| "Negotiated risk" is the process by which a resident, or | 8 |
| his or her
representative,
may formally
negotiate with | 9 |
| providers what risks each are willing and unwilling to assume | 10 |
| in
service provision
and the resident's living environment. The | 11 |
| provider assures that the resident
and the
resident's | 12 |
| representative, if any, are informed of the risks of these | 13 |
| decisions
and of
the potential
consequences of assuming these | 14 |
| risks. | 15 |
| "Owner" means the individual, partnership, corporation, | 16 |
| association, or other
person who owns
an assisted living or | 17 |
| shared housing establishment. In the event an assisted
living | 18 |
| or shared
housing establishment is operated by a person who | 19 |
| leases or manages the
physical plant, which is
owned by another | 20 |
| person, "owner" means the person who operates the assisted
| 21 |
| living or shared
housing establishment, except that if the | 22 |
| person who owns the physical plant is
an affiliate of the
| 23 |
| person who operates the assisted living or shared housing | 24 |
| establishment and has
significant
control over the day to day | 25 |
| operations of the assisted living or shared housing
| 26 |
| establishment, the
person who owns the physical plant shall |
|
|
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| incur jointly and severally with the
owner all liabilities
| 2 |
| imposed on an owner under this Act. | 3 |
| "Physician" means a person licensed
under the Medical | 4 |
| Practice Act of 1987
to practice medicine in all of its
| 5 |
| branches. | 6 |
| "Resident" means a person residing in an assisted living or | 7 |
| shared housing
establishment. | 8 |
| "Resident's representative" means a person, other than the | 9 |
| owner, agent, or
employee of an
establishment or of the health | 10 |
| care provider unless related to the resident,
designated in | 11 |
| writing by a
resident to be his or her
representative. This | 12 |
| designation may be accomplished through the Illinois
Power of | 13 |
| Attorney Act, pursuant to the guardianship process under the | 14 |
| Probate
Act of 1975, or pursuant to an executed designation of | 15 |
| representative form
specified by the Department. | 16 |
| "Self" means the individual or the individual's designated | 17 |
| representative. | 18 |
| "Shared housing establishment" or "establishment" means a | 19 |
| publicly or
privately operated free-standing
residence for 16 | 20 |
| or fewer persons, at least 80% of whom are 55
years of age or | 21 |
| older
and who are unrelated to the owners and one manager of | 22 |
| the residence, where
the following are provided: | 23 |
| (1) services consistent with a social model that is | 24 |
| based on the premise
that the resident's unit is his or her | 25 |
| own home; | 26 |
| (2) community-based residential care for persons who |
|
|
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| 1 |
| need assistance with
activities of daily living, including | 2 |
| housing and personal, supportive, and
intermittent | 3 |
| health-related services available 24 hours per day, if | 4 |
| needed, to
meet the scheduled and unscheduled needs of a | 5 |
| resident; and | 6 |
| (3) mandatory services, whether provided directly by | 7 |
| the establishment or
by another entity arranged for by the | 8 |
| establishment, with the consent of the
resident or the | 9 |
| resident's representative. | 10 |
| "Shared housing establishment" or "establishment" does not | 11 |
| mean any of the
following: | 12 |
| (1) A home, institution, or similar place operated by | 13 |
| the federal
government or the State of Illinois. | 14 |
| (2) A long term care facility licensed under the | 15 |
| Nursing Home Care Act or a facility licensed under the | 16 |
| MR/DD Community Care Act.
A facility licensed under either | 17 |
| of those Acts may, however, convert sections of the | 18 |
| facility to
assisted living. If the facility elects to do | 19 |
| so, the facility
shall retain the Certificate of Need for | 20 |
| its nursing beds that were
converted. | 21 |
| (3) A hospital, sanitarium, or other institution, the | 22 |
| principal activity
or business of which is the diagnosis, | 23 |
| care, and treatment of human illness and
that is required | 24 |
| to be licensed under the Hospital Licensing Act. | 25 |
| (4) A facility for child care as defined in the Child | 26 |
| Care Act of 1969. |
|
|
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| (5) A community living facility as defined in the | 2 |
| Community Living
Facilities Licensing Act. | 3 |
| (6) A nursing home or sanitarium operated solely by and | 4 |
| for persons who
rely exclusively upon treatment by | 5 |
| spiritual means through prayer in accordance
with the creed | 6 |
| or tenants of a well-recognized church or religious
| 7 |
| denomination. | 8 |
| (7) A facility licensed by the Department of Human | 9 |
| Services as a
community-integrated
living arrangement as | 10 |
| defined in the Community-Integrated
Living Arrangements | 11 |
| Licensure and Certification Act. | 12 |
| (8) A supportive residence licensed under the | 13 |
| Supportive Residences
Licensing Act. | 14 |
| (9) A life care facility as defined in the Life Care | 15 |
| Facilities Act; a
life care facility may apply under this | 16 |
| Act to convert sections of the
community to assisted | 17 |
| living. | 18 |
| (10) A free-standing hospice facility licensed under | 19 |
| the Hospice Program
Licensing Act. | 20 |
| (11) An assisted living establishment. | 21 |
| (12) A supportive living facility as described in | 22 |
| Section 5-5.01a of the
Illinois Public Aid Code. | 23 |
| "Total assistance" means that staff or another individual | 24 |
| performs the entire
activity of daily
living without | 25 |
| participation by the resident. | 26 |
| (Source: P.A. 95-216, eff. 8-16-07; 96-339, eff. 7-1-10.)
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| (210 ILCS 9/20)
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| Sec. 20. Construction and operating standards. The | 3 |
| Department , in consultation with the Advisory Board, shall | 4 |
| prescribe
minimum standards for
establishments. These | 5 |
| standards shall include:
| 6 |
| (1) the location and construction of the | 7 |
| establishment, including
plumbing,
heating, lighting,
| 8 |
| ventilation, and other physical conditions which shall | 9 |
| ensure the health,
safety, and comfort
of residents and | 10 |
| their protection from fire hazards; these standards shall
| 11 |
| include, at a minimum, compliance with the residential | 12 |
| board and care
occupancies chapter of the National Fire | 13 |
| Protection Association's Life Safety
Code, local and State | 14 |
| building codes for the building
type, and accessibility | 15 |
| standards of the Americans with Disabilities Act;
| 16 |
| (2) the number and qualifications of all personnel | 17 |
| having responsibility
for
any part of the services provided | 18 |
| for
residents;
| 19 |
| (3) all sanitary conditions within the establishment | 20 |
| and its surroundings,
including water supply,
sewage | 21 |
| disposal, food handling, infection control, and general | 22 |
| hygiene, which
shall ensure the
health and
comfort of | 23 |
| residents;
| 24 |
| (4) a program for adequate maintenance of physical | 25 |
| plant and equipment;
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| (5) adequate accommodations, staff, and services for | 2 |
| the number and types
of residents for whom
the | 3 |
| establishment is licensed;
| 4 |
| (6) the development of evacuation and other | 5 |
| appropriate safety plans for
use
during weather, health,
| 6 |
| fire, physical plant, environmental, and national defense | 7 |
| emergencies; and
| 8 |
| (7) the maintenance of minimum financial and other | 9 |
| resources necessary to
meet
the standards
established | 10 |
| under this Section and to operate the
establishment in | 11 |
| accordance with this Act.
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| (Source: P.A. 91-656, eff. 1-1-01.)
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| (210 ILCS 9/30)
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| Sec. 30. Licensing.
| 15 |
| (a) The Department , in consultation with the Advisory | 16 |
| Board, shall
establish
by rule forms,
procedures, and fees for | 17 |
| the annual licensing of assisted living and shared
housing
| 18 |
| establishments; shall establish and enforce sanctions and | 19 |
| penalties for
operating in violation
of this Act, as provided | 20 |
| in Section 135 of this Act and rules
adopted under
Section 110 | 21 |
| of this Act. The Department shall conduct an annual on-site
| 22 |
| review
for
each
establishment covered by this Act, which shall | 23 |
| include, but not be limited to,
compliance with
this Act and | 24 |
| rules adopted hereunder, focus on solving resident issues
and | 25 |
| concerns,
and the quality improvement process implemented by |
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| the establishment to address
resident
issues. The quality | 2 |
| improvement process implemented by the establishment must
| 3 |
| benchmark performance, be customer centered, be data driven, | 4 |
| and focus on
resident
satisfaction.
| 5 |
| (b) An establishment shall provide the following | 6 |
| information to the
Department
to be considered for licensure:
| 7 |
| (1) the business name, street address, mailing | 8 |
| address, and telephone
number of the
establishment;
| 9 |
| (2) the name and mailing address of the owner or owners | 10 |
| of the
establishment and if the
owner or owners are not | 11 |
| natural persons, identification of the type of
business | 12 |
| entity
of the owners, and the names and addresses of the | 13 |
| officers and members of the
governing body, or comparable | 14 |
| persons for partnerships, limited liability
companies, or | 15 |
| other types of business organizations;
| 16 |
| (3) financial information, content and form to be | 17 |
| determined by rules
which may provide different standards | 18 |
| for assisted living establishments and
shared housing | 19 |
| establishments,
establishing that the project is | 20 |
| financially feasible;
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| (4) the name and mailing address of the managing agent | 22 |
| of the
establishment, whether
hired under a management | 23 |
| agreement or lease agreement, if different from the
owner | 24 |
| or owners, and the name of the full-time director;
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| (5) verification that the establishment has entered or | 26 |
| will enter into a
service delivery
contract as provided in |
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| Section 90, as required under this Act, with each
resident | 2 |
| or
resident's representative;
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| (6) the name and address of at least one natural person | 4 |
| who shall be
responsible for
dealing with the Department on | 5 |
| all matters provided for in this Act, on whom
personal | 6 |
| service of all notices and orders shall be made, and who | 7 |
| shall be
authorized
to accept service on behalf of the | 8 |
| owner or owners and the managing agent.
Notwithstanding a | 9 |
| contrary provision of the Code of Civil Procedure, personal
| 10 |
| service on the person identified pursuant to this | 11 |
| subsection shall be
considered
service on the owner or | 12 |
| owners and the managing agent, and it shall not be a
| 13 |
| defense to any action that personal service was not made on | 14 |
| each individual or
entity;
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| (7) the signature of the authorized representative of | 16 |
| the owner or
owners;
| 17 |
| (8) proof of an ongoing quality improvement program in | 18 |
| accordance with
rules adopted
by the Department in | 19 |
| collaboration with the Advisory Board ;
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| (9) information about the number and types of units, | 21 |
| the maximum census,
and the
services to be provided at the | 22 |
| establishment, proof of compliance with
applicable
State | 23 |
| and local residential standards, and a copy of the standard | 24 |
| contract
offered to
residents;
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| (10) documentation of adequate liability insurance; | 26 |
| and
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| (11) other information necessary to determine the | 2 |
| identity and
qualifications of an
applicant or licensee to | 3 |
| operate an
establishment in
accordance with this Act as | 4 |
| required by the Department by rule.
| 5 |
| (c) The information in the statement of ownership shall be | 6 |
| public
information and shall be
available from the Department.
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| (Source: P.A. 91-656, eff. 1-1-01.)
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| (210 ILCS 9/110) | 9 |
| Sec. 110. Powers and duties of the Department. | 10 |
| (a) The Department shall conduct an annual unannounced | 11 |
| on-site visit at
each
assisted living and shared
housing | 12 |
| establishment to determine compliance with applicable | 13 |
| licensure
requirements and
standards. Additional visits may be | 14 |
| conducted without prior notice to the
assisted living
or shared | 15 |
| housing
establishment. | 16 |
| (b) Upon receipt of information that may indicate the | 17 |
| failure of the
assisted living or shared housing
establishment | 18 |
| or a service provider to comply with a provision of this Act,
| 19 |
| the Department shall
investigate the matter or make appropriate | 20 |
| referrals to other government
agencies and entities having
| 21 |
| jurisdiction over the subject matter of the possible violation. | 22 |
| The Department
may also make
referrals to any public or private | 23 |
| agency that the Department considers
available for appropriate
| 24 |
| assistance to those involved. The Department may oversee and | 25 |
| coordinate the
enforcement of State
consumer protection |
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| policies affecting residents residing in an establishment
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| licensed under this Act. | 3 |
| (c) The Department shall establish by rule complaint | 4 |
| receipt,
investigation,
resolution, and involuntary
residency | 5 |
| termination procedures. Resolution procedures shall provide | 6 |
| for
on-site review and
evaluation of an assisted living or | 7 |
| shared housing establishment found to be
in violation of this | 8 |
| Act
within a specified period of time based on the gravity and | 9 |
| severity of the
violation and any pervasive
pattern of | 10 |
| occurrences of the same or similar violations. | 11 |
| (d) (Blank). The Governor shall establish an Assisted | 12 |
| Living and Shared Housing Standards and Quality of Life
| 13 |
| Advisory Board. | 14 |
| (e) The Department shall by rule establish penalties and | 15 |
| sanctions, which
shall include, but need not be limited to,
the | 16 |
| creation of a schedule of graduated penalties and sanctions to | 17 |
| include
closure. | 18 |
| (f) The Department shall by rule establish procedures for | 19 |
| disclosure of
information to the public, which
shall include, | 20 |
| but not be limited to, ownership, licensure status, frequency | 21 |
| of
complaints, disposition of
substantiated complaints, and | 22 |
| disciplinary actions. | 23 |
| (g) (Blank). | 24 |
| (h) Beginning January 1, 2000, the Department shall begin | 25 |
| drafting rules
necessary for the administration
of this Act. | 26 |
| (Source: P.A. 93-1003, eff. 8-23-04.)
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| (210 ILCS 9/125 rep.)
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| Section 10. The Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act is | 3 |
| amended by repealing Section 125.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 5 |
| becoming law.".
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