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Public Act 097-0662
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| HB3788 Enrolled | LRB097 12208 RPM 56575 b |
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AN ACT concerning health facilities.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Long Term Acute Care Hospital Quality |
Improvement Transfer Program Act is amended by changing Section |
10 as follows:
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(210 ILCS 155/10)
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Sec. 10. Definitions. As used in this Act: |
(a) "CARE tool" means the Continuity and Record Evaluation |
(CARE) tool. It is a patient assessment instrument that has |
been developed to document the medical, cognitive, functional, |
and discharge status of persons receiving health care services |
in acute and post-acute care settings. The data collected is |
able to document provider-level quality of care (patient |
outcomes) and characterize the clinical complexity of |
patients. |
(b) "Department" means the Illinois Department of |
Healthcare and Family Services. |
(c) "Discharge" means the release of a patient from |
hospital care for any discharge disposition other than a leave |
of absence, even if for Medicare payment purposes the discharge |
fits the definition of an interrupted stay.
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(d) "FTE" means "full-time equivalent" or a person or |
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persons employed in one full-time position. |
(e) "Hospital" means an institution, place, building, or |
agency located in this State that is licensed as a general |
acute hospital by the Illinois Department of Public Health |
under the Hospital Licensing Act, whether public or private and |
whether organized for profit or not-for-profit. |
(f) "ICU" means intensive care unit. |
(g) "LTAC hospital" means an Illinois a hospital that is |
designated by Medicare as a long term acute care hospital as |
described in Section 1886(d)(1)(B)(iv)(I) of the Social |
Security Act and has an average length of Medicaid inpatient |
stay greater than 25 days as reported on the hospital's 2008 |
Medicaid cost report on file as of February 15, 2010, or a |
hospital that begins operations after January 1, 2009 2010 and |
is designated by Medicare as a long term acute care hospital. |
(h) "LTAC hospital criteria" means nationally recognized |
evidence-based evaluation criteria that have been publicly |
tested and includes criteria specific to an LTAC hospital for |
admission, continuing stay, and discharge. The criteria cannot |
include criteria derived or developed by or for a specific |
hospital or group of hospitals. Criteria and tools developed by |
hospitals or hospital associations or hospital-owned |
organizations are not acceptable and do not meet the |
requirements of this subsection. |
(i) "Patient" means an individual who is admitted to a |
hospital for an inpatient stay. |