Section 545.95  Emergency Contraception

a)         By April 30, 2002, every hospital providing services to alleged sexual assault survivors in accordance with a plan approved under Section 545.35 of this Part must develop a protocol for providing emergency contraception information and treatment to alleged sexual assault survivors.  (Section 2.2(b) of the Act)  

b)         The Department shall request a plan that complies with the requirements of this Section by April 1, 2002.  The Department will approve the protocol if it finds that the implementation of the protocol would provide sufficient protection for survivors of an alleged sexual assault and if the protocol provides for the following as soon as possible and, in any event, no later than 12 hours after the alleged sexual assault survivor presents herself/himself at the hospital for emergency care:

1)       medically and factually accurate written and  oral information about emergency contraception;

2)       the indications and counter-indications and risks associated with the use of emergency contraception;

3)       a description of how and when victims may be provided emergency contraception upon the written order of a physician (Section 2.2(b) of the Act);

4)       appropriate referral to a physician licensed to practice medicine in all its branches as provided in the Medical Practice Act of 1987.

c)         The hospital shall implement the protocol upon approval by the Department.  (Section 2.2(b) of the Act)

d)         The Department shall produce medically and factually accurate written materials that all treatment hospitals shall provide to each female sexual assault survivor of childbearing age.  

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