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| AN ACT concerning State government.
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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 Mental Health and Developmental |
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| Disabilities Administrative Act is amended by adding Section |
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| 18.6 as follows:
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| (20 ILCS 1705/18.6 new) |
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| Sec. 18.6. Community hospital inpatient psychiatric |
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| services program restoration. |
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| (a) Findings. The General Assembly finds as follows: |
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| (1) In 2002, the State of Illinois closed the Zeller |
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| Mental Health Center in Peoria and significantly reduced |
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| the capacities of the Elgin Mental Health Center and the |
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| Alton Mental Health Center, severely reducing the State's |
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| ability to provide inpatient psychiatric services at |
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| State-operated facilities. |
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| (2) In order to meet the State's obligation to |
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| individuals who previously would have been treated in these |
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| State-operated facilities, the Department of Human |
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| Services' Division of Mental Health (DMH) established in |
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| 2002 a program known as the Community Hospital Inpatient |
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| Psychiatric Services ("CHIPS") Program (DMH; Cost Center |
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| 550), under which DMH contracted with and reimbursed |
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| private community hospitals to provide acute inpatient |
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| psychiatric services to individuals suffering from mental |
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| illness. |
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| (3) In 2009, in response to the State's budget crisis, |
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| DMH eliminated all funding for the CHIPS program and |
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| terminated all contracts with private community hospitals |
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| for these services. The elimination of this vital program |
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| threatens the health, safety, and welfare of Illinois |
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| residents who are poor, uninsured, suffering from serious |
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| mental illness, and require admission for inpatient |
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| psychiatric services. |
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| (4) With the elimination of the CHIPS program, many |
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| Illinois residents with serious mental illness are forced |
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| to rely on hospital emergency rooms. This interferes with |
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| the orderly provision of emergency medical care to other |
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| patients and can delay appropriate care for the person |
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| suffering from mental illness. The elimination of CHIPS, |
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| which provides an acute care option for persons in crisis, |
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| also may increase homelessness and incarceration of |
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| mentally ill persons. |
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| (b) CHIPS program restored. Beginning July 1, 2010, the |
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| Department of Human Services' Division of Mental Health shall |
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| reinstate and fully operate the Community Hospital Inpatient |
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| Psychiatric Services ("CHIPS") Program in the same manner as it |
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| had been operated on May 1, 2009. |
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| (c) Reimbursement. The Division of Mental Health shall |
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| establish and pay adequate and timely reimbursement for private |
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| community hospitals, psychiatrists, and other mental health |
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| professionals who render care under the CHIPS program using the |
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| same reimbursement methodology that was in effect on May 1, |
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| 2009. |
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| (d) Regulations. The Division of Mental Health shall adopt |
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| such regulations as shall be necessary to implement this |
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| amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
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| becoming law.
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