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 1                    AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3399
 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend House Bill 3399  by  replacing
 3    everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 4        "Section  5.   The Excellence in Academic Medicine Act is
 5    amended by changing Section 15 as follows:
 6        (30 ILCS 775/15)
 7        Sec. 15.  Definitions.  As used in this Act:
 8        "Academic  medical  center  hospital"  means  a  hospital
 9    located in Illinois that which is  either  (i)  under  common
10    ownership  with  the  college  of  medicine  of  a college or
11    university or (ii) a  free-standing  hospital  in  which  the
12    majority  of  the  clinical  chiefs of service are department
13    chairmen in an affiliated medical school.
14        "Academic medical center  children's  hospital"  means  a
15    children's  hospital  which  is  separately  incorporated and
16    non-integrated into the academic medical center hospital  but
17    which is the pediatric partner for an academic medical center
18    hospital  and  which  serves as the primary teaching hospital
19    for pediatrics for its affiliated medical school;  children's
20    hospitals  which  are  separately incorporated but integrated
21    into the academic medical center hospital are considered part
22    of the academic medical center hospital.
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 1        "Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area  academic
 2    medical  center  hospital"  means  an academic medical center
 3    hospital  located  in  the  Chicago   Medicare   Metropolitan
 4    Statistical Area.
 5        "Non-Chicago   Medicare   Metropolitan  Statistical  Area
 6    academic medical center hospital" means an  academic  medical
 7    center   hospital   located   outside  the  Chicago  Medicare
 8    Metropolitan Statistical Area.
 9        "Qualified Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area
10    academic medical center hospital" means any Chicago  Medicare
11    Metropolitan   Statistical   Area   academic  medical  center
12    hospital that either  directly  or  in  connection  with  its
13    affiliated medical school receives in excess of $8,000,000 in
14    grants  or  contracts  from the National Institutes of Health
15    during the calendar year preceding the beginning of the State
16    fiscal year; except that for the purposes of Section 25,  the
17    term  also includes the entity specified in subsection (e) of
18    that Section.
19        "Qualified Non-Chicago Medicare Metropolitan  Statistical
20    Area  academic  medical  center  hospital"  means the primary
21    teaching hospital for the University of  Illinois  School  of
22    Medicine  at Peoria and the primary teaching hospital for the
23    University of Illinois School of Medicine at Rockford and the
24    primary teaching hospitals for Southern  Illinois  University
25    School of Medicine in Springfield.
26        "Qualified  academic medical center hospital" means (i) a
27    qualified  Chicago  Medicare  Metropolitan  Statistical  Area
28    academic  medical   center   hospital,   (ii)   a   qualified
29    Non-Chicago  Medicare  Metropolitan Statistical Area academic
30    medical center hospital, or (iii) an academic medical  center
31    children's hospital.
32        "Qualified programs" include:
33             (i)  Thoracic  Transplantation:  heart  and lung, in
34        particular;
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 1             (ii)  Cancer:  particularly  biologic  modifiers  of
 2        tumor response, and  mechanisms  of  drug  resistance  in
 3        cancer therapy;
 4             (iii)  Shock/Burn:    development    of   biological
 5        alternatives to skin for grafting  in  burn  injury,  and
 6        research  in  mechanisms  of  shock  and tissue injury in
 7        severe injury;
 8             (iv)  Abdominal  transplantation:   kidney,   liver,
 9        pancreas,  and  development of islet cell and small bowel
10        transplantation technologies;
11             (v)  Minimally   invasive   surgery:    particularly
12        laparoscopic surgery;
13             (vi)  High     performance     medical    computing:
14        telemedicine and teleradiology;
15             (vii)  Transmyocardial  laser  revascularization:  a
16        laser creates holes in heart muscles to allow  new  blood
17        flow;
18             (viii)  Pet  scanning:  viewing  how organs function
19        (CT and MRI only allow viewing of  the  structure  of  an
20        organ);
21             (ix)  Strokes  in  the  African-American  community:
22        particularly  risk factors for cerebral vascular accident
23        (strokes)  in  the  African-American  community  at  much
24        higher risk than the general population;
25             (x)  Neurosurgery:    particularly    focusing    on
26        interventional neuroradiology;
27             (xi)  Comprehensive eye  center:  including  further
28        development in pediatric eye trauma;
29             (xii)  Cancers:   particularly  melanoma,  head  and
30        neck;
31             (xiii)  Pediatric cancer;
32             (xiv)  Invasive pediatric cardiology;
33             (xv)  Pediatric        organ        transplantation:
34        transplantation of solid organs, marrow, and  other  stem
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 1        cells; and
 2             (xvi)  Such other programs as may be identified.
 3    (Source: P.A. 89-506, eff. 7-3-96.)".

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