Public Act 095-0031
 		





HB0892 Enrolled
LRB095 08539 DRJ 28720 b






    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 3-202 as follows:
 



    (210 ILCS 45/3-202)  (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4153-202)



    Sec. 3-202. The Department shall prescribe minimum 
standards for facilities. These standards shall regulate:

    (1) Location and construction of the facility, including 
plumbing, heating,
lighting, ventilation, and other physical 
conditions which shall ensure the
health, safety, and comfort 
of residents and their protection from fire hazard;

    (2) Number and qualifications of all personnel, including 
management and
nursing personnel, having responsibility for 
any part of the care given
to residents; specifically, the 
Department shall establish staffing ratios
for facilities 
which shall specify the number of staff hours per resident
of 
care that are needed for professional nursing care for various 
types
of facilities or areas within facilities;

    (3) All sanitary conditions within the facility and its 
surroundings,
including water supply, sewage disposal, food 
handling, and general hygiene,
which shall ensure the health 
and comfort of residents;

    (4) Diet related to the needs of each resident based on 
good nutritional
practice and on recommendations which may be 
made by the physicians attending
the resident;

    (5) Equipment essential to the health and welfare of the 
residents;

    (6) A program of habilitation and rehabilitation for those 
residents who
would benefit from such programs;

    (7) A program for adequate maintenance of physical plant 
and equipment;

    (8) Adequate accommodations, staff and services for the 
number and
types of residents for whom the facility is licensed 
to care, including
standards for temperature and relative 
humidity within comfort zones determined
by the Department 
based upon a combination of air temperature, relative
humidity 
and air movement.  Such standards shall also require facility 
plans
that provide for health and comfort of residents at 
medical risk as determined
by the attending physician whenever 
the temperature and relative humidity
are outside such comfort 
zones established by the Department. The standards must include 
a requirement that areas of a nursing home used by residents of 
the nursing home be air conditioned and heated by means of 
operable air-conditioning and heating equipment. The areas 
subject to this air-conditioning and heating requirement 
include, without limitation, bedrooms or common areas such as 
sitting rooms, activity rooms, living rooms, community rooms, 
and dining rooms. No later than July 1, 2008, the Department 
shall submit a report to the General Assembly concerning the 
impact of the changes made by this amendatory Act of the 95th 
General Assembly;


    (9) Development of evacuation and other appropriate safety 
plans for
use during weather, health, fire, physical plant, 
environmental and
national defense emergencies; and

    (10) Maintenance of minimum financial or other resources 
necessary to
meet the standards established under this Section, 
and to operate and
conduct the facility in accordance with this 
Act.

(Source: P.A. 83-1530.)

 

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