(20 ILCS 2310/2310-415) (was 20 ILCS 2310/55.81)
Sec. 2310-415.
Violent injury reporting.
(a) The
Department shall require hospitals and other facilities in
the
State to report, in a manner determined by rule, each injury allegedly caused
by a violent act. The Department shall
coordinate
this reporting with existing reporting requirements such as trauma and head and
neck injury reporting to reduce duplication of reporting. All information and
data reported shall be confidential and privileged in accordance with Part 21
of Article VIII of the Code of Civil Procedure, except as provided in
subsection (b).
(b) The Department shall compile the
reports
required under subsection (a) and shall determine the impact of violent acts on
children. The Department shall, using only data from which the identity of an
individual cannot be ascertained, reconstructed, or verified and to which the
identity of an individual cannot be linked by a recipient of the data, report
its findings to the General Assembly by December 31, 1997, and every 2 years
thereafter.
(Source: P.A. 90-162, eff. 7-23-97;
91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
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