Full Text of SB0221 102nd General Assembly
SB0221 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2021 and 2022 SB0221 Introduced 2/17/2021, by Sen. Bill Cunningham SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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Amends the Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. Provides that "home services" includes assistance with: bathing without client self-direction, including areas of the body other than those areas with special skin care needs; applying topical prescription lotions to rashes, skin tears, stage 1 or 2 decubiti, and first and second degree burns; applying compression stockings; assisting with normal feeding, including pre-measured, thickened liquids; applying shampoo in hair care treatment requiring a prescription; permitting nail filing of clients with conditions that might involve peripheral circulatory conditions; assisting with personal, mechanical, or electronic transfers of clients when the client can assist with transfer; assisting with ambulation of clients using adaptative equipment for ambulation; assisting with changing oxygen tanks, adjusting oxygen flow, and turning oxygen tanks on and off; and repositioning clients every 2 hours or as instructed by the plan of care.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning regulation.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Home Health, Home Services, and Home | 5 | | Nursing Agency Licensing Act is amended by changing Section | 6 | | 2.09 as follows: | 7 | | (210 ILCS 55/2.09) | 8 | | Sec. 2.09. "Home services" or "in-home services" means | 9 | | assistance with activities of : daily living ; , housekeeping ; , | 10 | | personal laundry ; bathing without client self-direction, | 11 | | including areas of the body other than those areas with | 12 | | special skin care needs; applying topical prescription lotions | 13 | | to rashes, skin tears, stage 1 or 2 decubiti, and first and | 14 | | second degree burns; applying compression stockings; assisting | 15 | | with normal feeding, including pre-measured, thickened | 16 | | liquids; applying shampoo in hair care treatment requiring a | 17 | | prescription; permitting nail filing of clients with | 18 | | conditions that might involve peripheral circulatory | 19 | | conditions; assisting with personal, mechanical, or electronic | 20 | | transfers of clients when the client can assist with transfer; | 21 | | assisting with ambulation of clients using adaptative | 22 | | equipment for ambulation; assisting with changing oxygen | 23 | | tanks, adjusting oxygen flow, and turning oxygen tanks on and |
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| 1 | | off; repositioning clients every 2 hours or as instructed by | 2 | | the plan of care; , and providing companionship provided to an | 3 | | individual in his or her personal residence, which are | 4 | | intended to enable that individual to remain safely and | 5 | | comfortably in his or her own personal residence. "Home | 6 | | services" or "in-home services" does not include services that | 7 | | would be required to be performed by an individual licensed | 8 | | under the Nurse Practice Act.
| 9 | | (Source: P.A. 94-379, eff. 1-1-06; 95-639, eff. 10-5-07.)
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