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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 809
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 809 on page 1, after | ||||||
| 3 | line 3, by inserting the following:
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| 4 | "Section 2. The Illinois Act on the Aging is amended by | ||||||
| 5 | changing Section 4.03 as follows:
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| 6 | (20 ILCS 105/4.03) (from Ch. 23, par. 6104.03)
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| 7 | Sec. 4.03. The Department on Aging, in cooperation with the | ||||||
| 8 | Department of
Human Services and any other appropriate State, | ||||||
| 9 | local or
federal agency, shall, without regard to income | ||||||
| 10 | guidelines, establish a
nursing home prescreening program to | ||||||
| 11 | determine whether Alzheimer's Disease
and related disorders | ||||||
| 12 | victims, and persons who are deemed as blind or
disabled as | ||||||
| 13 | defined by the Social Security Act and who are in need of long
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| 14 | term care, may be satisfactorily cared for in their homes | ||||||
| 15 | through the use
of home and community based services. | ||||||
| 16 | Responsibility for prescreening shall be vested with case | ||||||
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| 1 | coordination units.
Prescreening shall occur: (i) when | ||||||
| 2 | hospital discharge planners have advised the case coordination | ||||||
| 3 | unit of the imminent risk of nursing home placement of a | ||||||
| 4 | patient who meets the above criteria and in advance of | ||||||
| 5 | discharge of the patient; or (ii) when a case coordination unit | ||||||
| 6 | has been advised of the imminent risk of nursing home placement | ||||||
| 7 | of an individual in the community. The individual who is | ||||||
| 8 | prescreened shall be informed of all appropriate options, | ||||||
| 9 | including placement in a nursing home and the availability of | ||||||
| 10 | in-home and community-based services and shall be advised of | ||||||
| 11 | her or his right to refuse nursing home, in-home, | ||||||
| 12 | community-based, or all services. Case coordination units | ||||||
| 13 | under
contract with the Department may charge a fee for the | ||||||
| 14 | prescreening provided
under this Section and the fee shall be | ||||||
| 15 | no greater than the cost of such
services to the case | ||||||
| 16 | coordination unit.
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| 17 | (Source: P.A. 89-21, eff. 7-1-95; 89-507, eff. 7-1-97.)"; and
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| 18 | on page 1, by replacing lines 13 through 15 with the following: | ||||||
| 19 | "nursing facility, the hospital must notify the case | ||||||
| 20 | coordination unit, as defined in 89 Ill. Adm. Code 240.260, at | ||||||
| 21 | least 24 hours prior to discharge or, if home health services | ||||||
| 22 | are".
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