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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning public health.
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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 Department of Public Health Powers and |
| 5 | | Duties Law of the
Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is |
| 6 | | amended by changing Section 2310-312 as follows:
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| 7 | | (20 ILCS 2310/2310-312) |
| 8 | | Sec. 2310-312. Multidrug-Resistant Organisms. The |
| 9 | | Department shall perform the following functions in relation to |
| 10 | | the prevention and control of Multidrug-Resistant Organisms |
| 11 | | (MDROs), including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus |
| 12 | | (MRSA), vancomycin-resistant (VRE) and certain gram-negative |
| 13 | | bacilli (GNB), as these terms are referenced by the United |
| 14 | | States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: |
| 15 | | (1) Except with regard to hospitals, for which |
| 16 | | administrative rules shall be adopted in accordance with |
| 17 | | Section 6.23 of the Hospital Licensing Act and Section 7 of |
| 18 | | the University of Illinois Hospital Act, the Department |
| 19 | | shall adopt administrative rules for health care |
| 20 | | facilities subject to licensure, certification, |
| 21 | | registration, or other regulation by the Department that |
| 22 | | may require one or more types of those facilities to (i) |
| 23 | | perform an annual infection control risk assessment, (ii) |
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| 1 | | develop infection control policies for MDROs that are based |
| 2 | | on this assessment and incorporate, as appropriate, |
| 3 | | updated recommendations of the U.S. Centers for Disease |
| 4 | | Control and Prevention for the prevention and control of |
| 5 | | MDROs, and (iii) enforce hand hygiene requirements. |
| 6 | | (2) The Department shall: |
| 7 | | (A) publicize guidelines for reducing the |
| 8 | | incidence of MDROs to health care providers, health |
| 9 | | care facilities, public health departments, prisons, |
| 10 | | jails, and the general public; and |
| 11 | | (B) provide periodic reports and updates to public |
| 12 | | officials, health professionals, and the general |
| 13 | | public statewide regarding new developments or |
| 14 | | procedures concerning prevention and management of |
| 15 | | infections due to MDROs. |
| 16 | | (3) The Department shall publish a yearly report |
| 17 | | regarding MRSA and Clostridium difficile infections based |
| 18 | | on the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's |
| 19 | | National
Healthcare Safety Network surveillance system or |
| 20 | | its successor the Hospital Discharge Dataset. The |
| 21 | | Department is authorized to require hospitals, based on |
| 22 | | guidelines developed by the National Center for Health |
| 23 | | Statistics, after October 1, 2007, to submit data to the |
| 24 | | Department that is coded as "present on admission" and |
| 25 | | "occurred during the stay". |
| 26 | | (4) Reporting to the Department under the Hospital |
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| 1 | | Report Card Act shall include organisms, including but not |
| 2 | | limited to MRSA, that are responsible for central venous |
| 3 | | catheter-associated bloodstream infections and |
| 4 | | ventilator-associated pneumonia in designated hospital |
| 5 | | units. |
| 6 | | (5) The Department shall implement surveillance for |
| 7 | | designated cases of community associated MRSA infections |
| 8 | | for a period of at least 3 years, beginning on or before |
| 9 | | January 1, 2008.
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| 10 | | (Source: P.A. 95-282, eff. 8-20-07.)
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