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20 ILCS 1705/7.3

(20 ILCS 1705/7.3)

Sec. 7.3. Health Care Worker Registry.

The
Department
shall require that no facility, service agency, or support agency providing
mental health
or developmental disability services that is licensed, certified, operated, or
funded by the
Department shall employ a person, in any capacity, who is identified by the Health Care Worker Registry as having been the subject of a substantiated finding of physical abuse, sexual abuse, financial exploitation,  egregious neglect, or material obstruction of an investigation. Any owner or operator of a community agency who is identified by the Health Care Worker Registry as having been the subject of a substantiated finding of physical abuse, sexual abuse, financial exploitation, egregious neglect, or material obstruction of an investigation is prohibited from any involvement in any capacity with the provision of Department funded mental health or developmental disability services.  The
Department shall establish and maintain the rules that are
necessary or
appropriate to effectuate the intent of this Section. The provisions of this
Section shall not
apply to any facility, service agency, or support agency licensed or certified
by a State
agency other than the Department, unless operated by the Department of Human
Services.

(Source: P.A. 103-76, eff. 6-9-23.)