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1    AN ACT concerning public aid.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Act on the Aging is amended by
5changing Section 4.03 as follows:
 
6    (20 ILCS 105/4.03)  (from Ch. 23, par. 6104.03)
7    Sec. 4.03. The Department on Aging, in cooperation with the
8Department of Human Services and any other appropriate State,
9local or federal agency, shall, without regard to income
10guidelines, establish a nursing home prescreening program to
11determine whether Alzheimer's Disease and related disorders
12victims, and persons who are deemed as blind or disabled as
13defined by the Social Security Act and who are in need of long
14term care, may be satisfactorily cared for in their homes
15through the use of home and community based services.
16Responsibility for prescreening shall be vested with case
17coordination units. Prescreening shall occur: (i) when
18hospital discharge planners have advised the case coordination
19unit of the imminent risk of nursing home placement of a
20patient who meets the above criteria and in advance of
21discharge of the patient; or (ii) when a case coordination unit
22has been advised of the imminent risk of nursing home placement
23of an individual in the community. The individual who is

 

 

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1prescreened shall be informed of all appropriate options,
2including placement in a nursing home and the availability of
3in-home and community-based services and shall be advised of
4her or his right to refuse nursing home, in-home,
5community-based, or all services. In addition, the individual
6being prescreened shall be informed of spousal impoverishment
7requirements, the need to submit financial information to
8access services, and the consequences for failure to do so in a
9form and manner developed jointly by the Department on Aging,
10the Department of Human Services, and the Department of
11Healthcare and Family Services. Case coordination units under
12contract with the Department may charge a fee for the
13prescreening provided under this Section and the fee shall be
14no greater than the cost of such services to the case
15coordination unit. At the time of each prescreening, case
16coordination units shall provide information regarding the
17Office of State Long Term Care Ombudsman's Residents Right to
18Know database as authorized in subsection (c-5) of Section
194.04.
20(Source: P.A. 95-80, eff. 8-13-07; 95-823, eff. 1-1-09; 96-328,
21eff. 8-11-09.)
 
22    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
23becoming law.