Public Act 096-0353
 		





HB0068 Enrolled
LRB096 03185 DRJ 13202 b






    AN ACT concerning regulation.

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


 
    Section 5. The Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act is 
amended  by changing Section 70 as follows:
 



    (210 ILCS 9/70)



    Sec. 70. Service requirements. An
establishment must

provide all mandatory services and may provide optional 
services, including
medication reminders, supervision of 
self-administered medication and
medication administration as

defined by this Section
and nonmedical services defined by 
rule, whether provided directly by the
establishment or by 
another
entity arranged for by the establishment with the 
consent of the resident or
the resident's
representative.

    For the purposes of this Section, "medication reminders" 
means reminding
residents to take pre-dispensed, 
self-administered medication, observing the
resident, and 
documenting whether or not the resident took the medication.

    For the purposes of this Section, "supervision of 
self-administered
medication" means assisting the resident 
with self-administered medication
using any combination of the 
following: reminding residents to take medication,
reading the 
medication label to residents, checking the self-administered

medication dosage against the label of the medication, 
confirming that
residents have obtained and are taking the 
dosage as prescribed, and
documenting in writing that the 
resident has taken (or refused to take) the
medication.  If 
residents are physically unable to open the container, the

container may be opened for them.  Supervision of 
self-administered medication
shall be under the direction of a 
licensed health care professional.

    For the purposes of this Section, "medication 
administration" refers to a
licensed health care professional 
employed by an establishment engaging in
administering insulin 
and vitamin B-12 injections,
oral medications,
topical 
treatments, eye and ear drops, or
nitroglycerin patches.

Non-licensed staff may not administer any medication. 

    The Department shall specify by rule procedures for 
medication reminders,
supervision of self-administered 
medication, and medication administration.

    Nothing in this Act shall preclude a physician licensed 
under the Medical Practice Act of 1987 to practice medicine
in 
all its branches from providing services within the scope of 
his or her license to any resident.

(Source: P.A. 94-256, eff. 7-19-05.)

 

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