HB5019 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB097 19428 DRJ 64681 b

97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
HB5019

Introduced 2/7/2012, by Rep. Lou Lang

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

210 ILCS 45/3-502

from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4153-502

Amends the Nursing Home Care Act. Provides that the Department of Public Health's placement of a monitor in a long-term care facility shall be for the purpose of working with the facility in a collaborative manner to achieve compliance with State regulations. Provides that the monitor shall file a written report (instead of report periodically) with the Department and also with the facility. Requires the monitor to participate in a meeting with the Department's regional representative and the facility. Effective immediately.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning regulation.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Nursing Home Care Act is amended by changing Section 3-502 as follows:

(210 ILCS 45/3-502) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4153-502)

Sec. 3-502. In any situation described in Section 3-501, the Department may place a qualified person to act as monitor in the facility for the purpose of working with the facility in a collaborative manner to achieve compliance with State regulations. The monitor shall observe operation of the facility, shall assist the facility by advising it on how to comply with the State regulations, and shall file a written report with periodically to the Department and the facility on the first day of each month on the operation of the facility. The report shall identify perceived problems and recommend potential changes. In addition, the monitor shall participate in a meeting with a regional representative of the Department and the facility no later than the 20th of each month. The purpose of the meeting shall be for the monitor to review the contents of the report most recently filed with the Department and the facility and to answer questions, permit the facility to address problems identified in the report, and give all parties the opportunity to collectively agree on possible courses of action. The monitor shall then modify the report to reflect the outcomes of the meeting and shall submit the modified report to the Department and the facility no later than the 25th of each month.

(Source: P.A. 81-223.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.