Public Act 097-0049
 
SB1805 EnrolledLRB097 05294 RPM 45348 b


  
    AN ACT concerning public health.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
    Section 5. The Department of Public Health Powers and 
Duties Law of the
Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is 
amended  by changing Section 2310-312 as follows:
 
    (20 ILCS 2310/2310-312)
    Sec. 2310-312. Multidrug-Resistant Organisms. The 
Department shall perform the following functions in relation to 
the prevention and control of Multidrug-Resistant Organisms 
(MDROs), including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus 
(MRSA), vancomycin-resistant (VRE) and certain gram-negative 
bacilli (GNB), as these terms are referenced by the United 
States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
        (1) Except with regard to hospitals, for which  
    administrative rules  shall be adopted in accordance with 
    Section 6.23 of the Hospital Licensing Act and Section 7 of 
    the University of Illinois Hospital Act, the Department 
    shall adopt administrative rules for health care 
    facilities subject to licensure, certification, 
    registration, or other regulation by the Department that 
    may require one or more types of those facilities to (i) 
    perform an annual infection control risk assessment, (ii) 
    develop  infection control policies for MDROs that are based 
    on this assessment and incorporate, as appropriate, 
    updated recommendations of the U.S. Centers for Disease 
    Control and Prevention for the prevention and control of 
    MDROs, and (iii) enforce hand hygiene requirements.
        (2) The Department shall:
            (A) publicize guidelines for reducing the 
        incidence of MDROs to health care providers, health 
        care facilities, public health departments, prisons, 
        jails, and the general public; and
            (B) provide periodic reports and updates to public 
        officials, health professionals, and the general 
        public statewide regarding new developments or 
        procedures concerning prevention and management of 
        infections due to MDROs.
        (3) The Department shall publish a yearly report 
    regarding MRSA and Clostridium difficile infections based 
    on the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 
    National
Healthcare Safety Network surveillance system or 
    its successor the Hospital Discharge Dataset. The 
    Department is authorized to require hospitals, based on 
    guidelines developed by the National Center for Health 
    Statistics, after October 1, 2007, to submit data to the 
    Department that is coded as "present on admission" and 
    "occurred during the stay".
        (4) Reporting to the Department under the Hospital 
    Report Card Act shall include organisms, including but not 
    limited to MRSA, that are responsible for central venous 
    catheter-associated bloodstream infections and 
    ventilator-associated pneumonia in designated hospital 
    units.
        (5) The Department shall implement surveillance for 
    designated cases of community associated MRSA infections 
    for a period of at least 3 years, beginning on or before 
    January 1, 2008.

(Source: P.A. 95-282, eff. 8-20-07.)