Rep. Jerry F. Costello, II

Filed: 3/19/2013

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2765

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2765 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
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

 

 

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1coordination units. Prescreening shall occur: (i) when
2hospital discharge planners have advised the case coordination
3unit of the imminent risk of nursing home placement of a
4patient who meets the above criteria and in advance of
5discharge of the patient; or (ii) when a case coordination unit
6has been advised of the imminent risk of nursing home placement
7of an individual in the community. The individual who is
8prescreened shall be informed of all appropriate options,
9including placement in a nursing home and the availability of
10in-home and community-based services and shall be advised of
11her or his right to refuse nursing home, in-home,
12community-based, or all services. In addition, the individual
13being prescreened shall be informed of spousal impoverishment
14requirements, the need to submit financial information to
15access services, and the consequences for failure to do so in a
16form and manner developed jointly by the Department on Aging,
17the Department of Human Services, and the Department of
18Healthcare and Family Services. Case coordination units under
19contract with the Department may charge a fee for the
20prescreening provided under this Section and the fee shall be
21no greater than the cost of such services to the case
22coordination unit. At the time of each prescreening, case
23coordination units shall provide information regarding the
24Office of State Long Term Care Ombudsman's Residents Right to
25Know database as authorized in subsection (c-5) of Section
264.04.

 

 

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1(Source: P.A. 95-80, eff. 8-13-07; 95-823, eff. 1-1-09; 96-328,
2eff. 8-11-09.)
 
3    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
4becoming law.".