Public Act 097-0662
 
HB3788 EnrolledLRB097 12208 RPM 56575 b

    AN ACT concerning health facilities.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Long Term Acute Care Hospital Quality
Improvement Transfer Program Act is amended by changing Section
10 as follows:
 
    (210 ILCS 155/10)
    Sec. 10. Definitions. As used in this Act:
    (a) "CARE tool" means the Continuity and Record Evaluation
(CARE) tool. It is a patient assessment instrument that has
been developed to document the medical, cognitive, functional,
and discharge status of persons receiving health care services
in acute and post-acute care settings. The data collected is
able to document provider-level quality of care (patient
outcomes) and characterize the clinical complexity of
patients.
    (b) "Department" means the Illinois Department of
Healthcare and Family Services.
    (c) "Discharge" means the release of a patient from
hospital care for any discharge disposition other than a leave
of absence, even if for Medicare payment purposes the discharge
fits the definition of an interrupted stay.
    (d) "FTE" means "full-time equivalent" or a person or
persons employed in one full-time position.
    (e) "Hospital" means an institution, place, building, or
agency located in this State that is licensed as a general
acute hospital by the Illinois Department of Public Health
under the Hospital Licensing Act, whether public or private and
whether organized for profit or not-for-profit.
    (f) "ICU" means intensive care unit.
    (g) "LTAC hospital" means an Illinois a hospital that is
designated by Medicare as a long term acute care hospital as
described in Section 1886(d)(1)(B)(iv)(I) of the Social
Security Act and has an average length of Medicaid inpatient
stay greater than 25 days as reported on the hospital's 2008
Medicaid cost report on file as of February 15, 2010, or a
hospital that begins operations after January 1, 2009 2010 and
is designated by Medicare as a long term acute care hospital.
    (h) "LTAC hospital criteria" means nationally recognized
evidence-based evaluation criteria that have been publicly
tested and includes criteria specific to an LTAC hospital for
admission, continuing stay, and discharge. The criteria cannot
include criteria derived or developed by or for a specific
hospital or group of hospitals. Criteria and tools developed by
hospitals or hospital associations or hospital-owned
organizations are not acceptable and do not meet the
requirements of this subsection.
    (i) "Patient" means an individual who is admitted to a
hospital for an inpatient stay.
    (j) "Program" means the Long Term Acute Care Hospital
Quality Improvement Transfer Program established by this Act.
    (k) "STAC hospital" means a hospital that is not an LTAC
hospital as defined in this Act or a psychiatric hospital or a
rehabilitation hospital.
(Source: P.A. 96-1130, eff. 7-20-10.)
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.