94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
SB2695


 
Introduced 1/20/2006, by Sen. Adeline Jay Geo-Karis - Kimberly A. Lightford - M. Maggie Crotty
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		














210 ILCS 45/3-421
  from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4153-421







    Amends the Nursing Home Care Act. Provides that pending approval from the resident, a nursing home must inform the resident's designated case coordination unit of the resident's pending discharge and must provide the resident or his or her representative with the case coordination unit's telephone number and other contact information. Effective immediately.
















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SB2695

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    AN ACT concerning regulation.

 
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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 Nursing Home Care Act is amended  by changing 
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Section 3-421 as follows:
 



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    (210 ILCS 45/3-421)  (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4153-421)



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    Sec. 3-421. In any transfer or discharge conducted under 
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subsection (e)
of Section 3-415, the Department shall notify 
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the facility and any resident
to be removed that an emergency 
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has been found to exist and removal
has been ordered, and shall 
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involve the residents in removal planning if
possible. 
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Following emergency removal, the Department shall provide 
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written
notice to the facility, to the resident, to the 
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resident's representative,
if any, and to a member of the 
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resident's family, where practicable, of
the basis for the 
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finding that an emergency existed and of the right to
challenge 
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removal under Section 3-422. Pending approval from the 
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resident, the facility must inform the resident's designated 
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case coordination unit, as defined in Ill. Admin. Code 240.260, 
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of the resident's pending discharge and must provide the 
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resident or his or her representative with the case 
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coordination unit's telephone number and other contact 
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information.


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(Source: P.A. 81-223.)

 

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    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
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becoming law.