Section 545.50 Community or Areawide Plans

a)         A hospital is authorized to participate, in conjuction with one or more other hospitals or health care facilities, in a community or areawide plan for the furnishing of hospital emergency service to alleged sexual assault survivors on a community or areawide basis, provided that each hospital participating in such a plan shall furnish such hospital emergency services or transfer services as it is designated to provide in the plan agreed upon by the participating hospitals to any alleged sexual assault survivor who applies for such services in relation to injuries or trauma resulting from the sexual assault.  (Section 3 of the Act)

b)         Community or areawide plans may be developed by the hospitals or other health care facilities in the community or area to be served, and shall provide for the hospital emergency services and transfer services to alleged sexual assault survivors that shall be made available by each of the participating hospitals and health care facilities.  (Section 4 of the Act)

c)         All such plans shall be submitted to the Department for prior approval before becoming effective. (Section 4 of the Act)

d)         The Department shall approve such plan for community or areawide hospital emergency service to alleged sexual assault survivors if it finds that the implementation of the proposed plan would provide an adequate and appropriate hospital emergency services for alleged sexual assault survivors of the community or area to be served. (Section 4 of the Act)

e)         Each plan shall include a description of the role of each hospital or health care facility participating in the plan, as well as individual treatment or transfer plans for each hospital, in accordance with Section 545.60 or Section 545.65 of this Part.

f)          Community or areawide plans shall conform to the requirements of the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act.

(Source:  Amended at 27 Ill. Reg. 1567, effective January 15, 2003)