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| 1 | AN ACT concerning public aid.
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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 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 | ||||||
| 17 | coordination units.
Prescreening shall occur: (i) when | ||||||
| 18 | hospital discharge planners have advised the case coordination | ||||||
| 19 | unit of the imminent risk of nursing home placement of a | ||||||
| 20 | patient who meets the above criteria and in advance of | ||||||
| 21 | discharge of the patient; or (ii) when a case coordination unit | ||||||
| 22 | has been advised of the imminent risk of nursing home placement | ||||||
| 23 | of an individual in the community. The individual who is | ||||||
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| 1 | prescreened shall be informed of all appropriate options, | ||||||
| 2 | including placement in a nursing home and the availability of | ||||||
| 3 | in-home and community-based services and shall be advised of | ||||||
| 4 | her or his right to refuse nursing home, in-home, | ||||||
| 5 | community-based, or all services. In addition, the individual | ||||||
| 6 | being prescreened shall be informed of spousal impoverishment | ||||||
| 7 | requirements, the need to submit financial information to | ||||||
| 8 | access services, and the consequences for failure to do so in a | ||||||
| 9 | form and manner developed jointly by the Department on Aging, | ||||||
| 10 | the Department of Human Services, and the Department of | ||||||
| 11 | Healthcare and Family Services. Case coordination units under
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| 12 | contract with the Department may charge a fee for the | ||||||
| 13 | prescreening provided
under this Section and the fee shall be | ||||||
| 14 | no greater than the cost of such
services to the case | ||||||
| 15 | coordination unit. At the time of each prescreening, case | ||||||
| 16 | coordination units shall provide information regarding the | ||||||
| 17 | Office of State Long Term Care Ombudsman's Residents Right to | ||||||
| 18 | Know database as authorized in subsection (c-5) of Section | ||||||
| 19 | 4.04.
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| 20 | (Source: P.A. 95-80, eff. 8-13-07; 95-823, eff. 1-1-09; 96-328, | ||||||
| 21 | eff. 8-11-09.)
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| 22 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 23 | becoming law.
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