Public Act 93-0319

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    AN ACT concerning health facilities.

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

    Section  5.  The Hospice Program Licensing Act is amended
by changing Sections 3 and 4 as follows:

    (210 ILCS 60/3) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 6103)
    Sec. 3.  Definitions.  As used in this  Act,  unless  the
context otherwise requires:
    (a)  "Bereavement"  means the period of time during which
the hospice patient's family experiences and adjusts  to  the
death of the hospice patient.
    (b)  "Department" means the Illinois Department of Public
Health.
    (c)  "Director"   means  the  Director  of  the  Illinois
Department of Public Health.
    (d)  "Full hospice" means a coordinated program  of  home
and inpatient care  providing directly, or through agreement,
palliative  and supportive medical, health and other services
to terminally ill  patients  and  their  families.    A  full
hospice   utilizes  a  medically  directed  interdisciplinary
hospice care  team  of  professionals  and  volunteers.   The
program  provides  care  to meet the physical, psychological,
social,  spiritual  and  other  special   needs   which   are
experienced  during  the  final  stages of illness and during
dying and bereavement.  Home care is  to  be  provided  on  a
part-time, intermittent, regularly scheduled basis, and on an
on-call  around-the-clock  basis  according  to  patient  and
family  need.  To  the maximum extent possible, care shall be
furnished in the patient's home.  Should in-patient  care  be
required,  services  are  to  be  provided with the intent of
minimizing the length of such care and shall only be provided
in a hospital licensed under the Hospital Licensing Act, or a
skilled nursing facility licensed under the Nursing Home Care
Act.
    (e)  "Hospice  care  team"  means  an   interdisciplinary
working  unit  composed  of  but  not  limited to a physician
licensed to practice medicine in all of its branches, a nurse
licensed  pursuant  to  the  Nursing  and  Advanced  Practice
Nursing Act, a social worker, a pastoral or other  counselor,
and trained volunteers.  The patient and the patient's family
are   considered  members  of  the  hospice  care  team  when
development or revision of the patient's plan of  care  takes
place.
    (f)  "Hospice  patient"  means  a  terminally  ill person
receiving hospice services.
    (g)  "Hospice patient's family" means a hospice patient's
immediate family consisting  of  a  spouse,  sibling,  child,
parent  and  those  individuals  designated  as  such  by the
patient for the purposes of this Act.
    (g-1)  "Hospice  residence"  means  a   home,   apartment
building, or similar building providing living quarters:
         (1)  that  is owned or operated by a person licensed
    to operate as a full hospice; and
         (2)  at  which  hospice  services  are  provided  to
    facility residents.
    A building that is licensed under the Hospital  Licensing
Act or the Nursing Home Care Act is not a hospice residence.
    (h)  "Hospice  services"  means palliative and supportive
care provided to a hospice patient and his family to meet the
special  need  arising  out  of  the   physical,   emotional,
spiritual  and  social  stresses which are experienced during
the final stages of illness and during dying and bereavement.
Services provided to the  terminally  ill  patient  shall  be
furnished,  to  the maximum extent possible, in the patient's
home.  Should inpatient care be required, services are to  be
provided  with  the  intent  of minimizing the length of such
care.
    (i)  "Palliative care" means treatment to provide for the
reduction or abatement of pain and other troubling  symptoms,
rather than treatment aimed at investigation and intervention
for  the  purpose  of  cure  or inappropriate prolongation of
life.
    (j)  "Hospice service plan" means a  plan  detailing  the
specific  hospice  services  offered  by  a full or volunteer
hospice, and the administrative  and  direct  care  personnel
responsible  for  those services.  The plan shall include but
not be limited to:
         (1)  Identification  of  the   person   or   persons
    administratively  responsible  for  the  program, and the
    affiliation of such person or  persons  with  a  licensed
    home health agency, hospital or nursing home.
         (2)  The estimated average monthly patient census.
         (3)  The  proposed  geographic area the hospice will
    serve.
         (4)  A listing of those  hospice  services  provided
    directly  by  the  hospice,  and  those  hospice services
    provided indirectly through a contractual agreement.
         (5)  The name and qualifications of those persons or
    entities  under  contract  to  provide  indirect  hospice
    services.
         (6)  The name and qualifications  of  those  persons
    providing  direct hospice services, with the exception of
    volunteers.
         (7)  A description  of  how  the  hospice  plans  to
    utilize volunteers in the provision of hospice services.
         (8)  A  description  of the program's record keeping
    system.
    (k)  "Terminally ill" means  a  medical  prognosis  by  a
physician  licensed  to  practice  medicine  in  all  of  its
branches that a patient has an anticipated life expectancy of
one year 6 months or less.
    (l)  "Volunteer"  means  a  person  who offers his or her
services to a hospice  without  compensation.   Reimbursement
for a volunteer's expenses in providing hospice service shall
not be considered compensation.
    (m)  "Volunteer  hospice"  means a program which provides
hospice services to patients regardless of their  ability  to
pay,  with  emphasis  on  the  utilization  of  volunteers to
provide   services,   under   the   administration    of    a
not-for-profit agency.  This definition does not prohibit the
employment of staff.
(Source: P.A. 89-278, eff. 8-10-95; 90-742, eff. 8-13-98.)

    (210 ILCS 60/4) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 6104)
    Sec. 4.  License.
    (a) No person shall establish, conduct or maintain a full
or  volunteer  hospice without first obtaining a license from
the Department.  A hospice residence may be operated only  at
the  locations  listed on the license.  A full hospice owning
or operating a  hospice  residence  is  not  subject  to  the
provisions  of  the  Nursing  Home  Care  Act  in  owning  or
operating a hospice residence.
    (b)  No  public  or  private  agency  shall  advertise or
present itself to the public as a full or  volunteer  hospice
which   provides   hospice   services   without  meeting  the
provisions of subsection (a).
    (c)  The license shall be valid only in the possession of
the hospice home health agency,  hospital,  nursing  home  or
not-for-profit  agency  to which it was originally issued and
shall not be transferred or assigned  to  any  other  person,
agency, or corporation.
    (d)  The license shall be renewed annually.
    (e)  The  license  shall  be  displayed  in a conspicuous
place inside the hospice program office.
(Source: P.A. 89-278, eff. 8-10-95.)

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

Effective Date: 7/23/2003