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| | 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
HB2706 Introduced , by Rep. Norine Hammond SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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Amends the Hospital Report Card Act. In a provision that requires the Department of Public Health to publish risk-adjusted mortality rates for hospitals, requires the published rates to include the risk-adjusted mortality rates for cardiovascular complications and diabetes-related hypoglycemia complications.
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| | HB2706 | | LRB099 09933 RPS 30149 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning regulation.
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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 Hospital Report Card Act is amended by |
| 5 | | changing Section 30 as follows:
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| 6 | | (210 ILCS 86/30)
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| 7 | | Sec. 30. Department reports. The Department of Public |
| 8 | | Health shall
annually submit
to the General Assembly a report |
| 9 | | summarizing the quarterly reports by health
service area
and |
| 10 | | shall publish that report on its website. The Department of |
| 11 | | Public Health
may issue
quarterly informational bulletins at |
| 12 | | its discretion, summarizing all or part of
the information
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| 13 | | submitted in these quarterly reports. The Department shall also |
| 14 | | publish
risk-adjusted mortality
rates, which shall include, |
| 15 | | but not be limited to, the risk-adjusted mortality rates for |
| 16 | | cardiovascular complications and diabetes-related hypoglycemia |
| 17 | | complications, for each hospital based upon information |
| 18 | | hospitals have already submitted
to the
Department pursuant to |
| 19 | | their obligations to report health care information
under other |
| 20 | | public
health reporting laws and regulations outside of this |
| 21 | | Act. The published
mortality rates must
comply with the |
| 22 | | hospital data publication process contained in subsection (c)
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| 23 | | of Section 25 of this Act.
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