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94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006 HB4956
Introduced 1/19/2006, by Rep. Kevin Joyce SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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Amends the Illinois Adverse Health Care Events Reporting Law of 2005. Requires the adverse health event reporting system to be fully operational by July 1, 2007 (now, January 1, 2008). Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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HB4956 |
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LRB094 18275 LJB 53586 b |
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| AN ACT concerning health.
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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 Illinois Adverse Health Care Events |
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| Reporting Law of 2005 is amended by changing Section 10-30 as |
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| follows: |
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| (410 ILCS 522/10-30)
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| Sec. 10-30. Establishment of reporting system. |
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| (a) The Department shall establish an adverse health event |
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| reporting system that will be fully operational by July 1, 2007
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| January 1, 2008 and designed to facilitate quality improvement |
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| in the health care system through communication and |
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| collaboration among the Department and health care facilities. |
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| The reporting system shall not be designed or used to punish |
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| errors or, except to enforce this Law, investigate or take |
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| disciplinary action against health care facilities, health |
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| care practitioners, or health care facility employees. The |
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| Department may not use the adverse health care event reports, |
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| findings of the root cause analyses, and corrective action |
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| plans filed under this Law for any purpose not stated in this |
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| Law, including, but not limited to, using such information for |
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| investigating possible violations of the reporting health care |
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| facility's licensing act or its regulations. The Department is |
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| not authorized to select from or between competing alternate |
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| health care treatments, services, or practices. |
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| (b) The reporting system shall consist of: |
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| (1) Mandatory reporting by health care facilities of |
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| adverse health care events.
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| (2) Mandatory completion of a root cause analysis and a |
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| corrective action plan by the health care facility and |
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| reporting of the findings of the analysis and the plan to |
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| the Department or reporting of reasons for not taking |