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| | 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
SB0221 Introduced 2/17/2021, by Sen. Bill Cunningham SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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Amends the Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. Provides that "home services" includes assistance with: bathing without client self-direction, including areas of the body other than those areas with special skin care needs; applying topical prescription lotions to rashes, skin tears, stage 1 or 2 decubiti, and first and second degree burns; applying compression stockings; assisting with normal feeding, including pre-measured, thickened liquids; applying shampoo in hair care treatment requiring a prescription; permitting nail filing of clients with conditions that might involve peripheral circulatory conditions; assisting with personal, mechanical, or electronic transfers of clients when the client can assist with transfer; assisting with ambulation of clients using adaptative equipment for ambulation; assisting with changing oxygen tanks, adjusting oxygen flow, and turning oxygen tanks on and off; and repositioning clients every 2 hours or as instructed by the plan of care.
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| | SB0221 | | LRB102 10328 CPF 15655 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning regulation.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Home Health, Home Services, and Home |
| 5 | | Nursing Agency Licensing Act is amended by changing Section |
| 6 | | 2.09 as follows:
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| 7 | | (210 ILCS 55/2.09) |
| 8 | | Sec. 2.09. "Home services" or "in-home services" means |
| 9 | | assistance with activities of: daily living; , housekeeping; , |
| 10 | | personal laundry; bathing without client self-direction, |
| 11 | | including areas of the body other than those areas with |
| 12 | | special skin care needs; applying topical prescription lotions |
| 13 | | to rashes, skin tears, stage 1 or 2 decubiti, and first and |
| 14 | | second degree burns; applying compression stockings; assisting |
| 15 | | with normal feeding, including pre-measured, thickened |
| 16 | | liquids; applying shampoo in hair care treatment requiring a |
| 17 | | prescription; permitting nail filing of clients with |
| 18 | | conditions that might involve peripheral circulatory |
| 19 | | conditions; assisting with personal, mechanical, or electronic |
| 20 | | transfers of clients when the client can assist with transfer; |
| 21 | | assisting with ambulation of clients using adaptative |
| 22 | | equipment for ambulation; assisting with changing oxygen |
| 23 | | tanks, adjusting oxygen flow, and turning oxygen tanks on and |