Sen. Christine Radogno

Filed: 3/30/2011

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1377

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1377 on page 3,
3immediately below line 12, by inserting the following:
 
4    "Section 15. The Long Term Acute Care Hospital Quality
5Improvement Transfer Program Act is amended by changing Section
610 as follows:
 
7    (210 ILCS 155/10)
8    Sec. 10. Definitions. As used in this Act:
9    (a) "CARE tool" means the Continuity and Record Evaluation
10(CARE) tool. It is a patient assessment instrument that has
11been developed to document the medical, cognitive, functional,
12and discharge status of persons receiving health care services
13in acute and post-acute care settings. The data collected is
14able to document provider-level quality of care (patient
15outcomes) and characterize the clinical complexity of
16patients.

 

 

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1    (b) "Department" means the Illinois Department of
2Healthcare and Family Services.
3    (c) "Discharge" means the release of a patient from
4hospital care for any discharge disposition other than a leave
5of absence, even if for Medicare payment purposes the discharge
6fits the definition of an interrupted stay.
7    (d) "FTE" means "full-time equivalent" or a person or
8persons employed in one full-time position.
9    (e) "Hospital" means an institution, place, building, or
10agency located in this State that is licensed as a general
11acute hospital by the Illinois Department of Public Health
12under the Hospital Licensing Act, whether public or private and
13whether organized for profit or not-for-profit.
14    (f) "ICU" means intensive care unit.
15    (g) "LTAC hospital" means a hospital that is designated by
16Medicare as a long term acute care hospital as described in
17Section 1886(d)(1)(B)(iv)(I) of the Social Security Act and has
18an average length of Medicaid inpatient stay greater than 25
19days as reported on the hospital's 2008 Medicaid cost report on
20file as of February 15, 2010, or a hospital that begins
21operations after January 1, 2009 2010 and is designated by
22Medicare as a long term acute care hospital.
23    (h) "LTAC hospital criteria" means nationally recognized
24evidence-based evaluation criteria that have been publicly
25tested and includes criteria specific to an LTAC hospital for
26admission, continuing stay, and discharge. The criteria cannot

 

 

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1include criteria derived or developed by or for a specific
2hospital or group of hospitals. Criteria and tools developed by
3hospitals or hospital associations or hospital-owned
4organizations are not acceptable and do not meet the
5requirements of this subsection.
6    (i) "Patient" means an individual who is admitted to a
7hospital for an inpatient stay.
8    (j) "Program" means the Long Term Acute Care Hospital
9Quality Improvement Transfer Program established by this Act.
10    (k) "STAC hospital" means a hospital that is not an LTAC
11hospital as defined in this Act or a psychiatric hospital or a
12rehabilitation hospital.
13(Source: P.A. 96-1130, eff. 7-20-10.)".