Full Text of HB5163 93rd General Assembly
HB5163 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004 HB5163
Introduced 02/05/04, by Joseph M. Lyons SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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Amends the Illinois Act on the Aging. Requires the Department on Aging, in cooperation with the departments of Public Health, Public Aid, and Human Services, to implement a quality profile system for nursing homes and, beginning July 1, 2005, assisted living facilities. Requires the Department on Aging to develop the quality profiles using surveys of consumers of long-term care services. Requires implementation of a system for dissemination of the profiles to consumers, providers, and purchasers of long-term care services by July 1, 2005.
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| AN ACT concerning aging.
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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 Illinois Act on the Aging is amended by | 5 |
| adding Section 4.12 as follows: | 6 |
| (20 ILCS 105/4.12 new) | 7 |
| Sec. 4.12. Long-term care quality profiles. | 8 |
| (a) Quality profiles. The Department on Aging, in
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| cooperation with the departments of Public Health, Public Aid, | 10 |
| and Human Services, shall develop and
implement a quality | 11 |
| profile system for facilities licensed under the Nursing Home | 12 |
| Care Act and,
beginning not later than July 1, 2005, facilities | 13 |
| licensed as assisted living establishments under the Assisted | 14 |
| Living and Shared Housing Act. The system must be developed and | 15 |
| implemented to
the extent possible without the collection of | 16 |
| significant
amounts of new data. To the extent possible, the | 17 |
| system must
incorporate or be coordinated with information on | 18 |
| quality
maintained by the Department on Aging, the departments | 19 |
| of Public Health, Public Aid, or Human Services, area agencies | 20 |
| on aging, the Office of State Long Term Care Ombudsman | 21 |
| established under Section 4.04, long-term care trade
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| associations, and other entities. The system must be designed
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| to provide information on quality of facilities and services to | 24 |
| the following: | 25 |
| (1) Consumers of long-term care services and their | 26 |
| families, to facilitate informed
choices of service | 27 |
| providers. | 28 |
| (2) Providers of long-term care services, to enable | 29 |
| them to measure the results of
their quality improvement | 30 |
| efforts and compare quality
achievements with other | 31 |
| service providers. | 32 |
| (3) Public and private purchasers of long-term care
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| services, to enable them to purchase high-quality care. | 2 |
| The system must be developed in consultation with
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| agencies on aging and with
representatives of consumers of | 4 |
| long-term care services, providers of long-term care services, | 5 |
| and labor unions.
Within the limits of available | 6 |
| appropriations, the Department on Aging
may employ consultants | 7 |
| to assist with this project. | 8 |
| (b) Quality measurement tools. The
Department on Aging | 9 |
| shall identify and apply existing quality
measurement tools to | 10 |
| do the following: | 11 |
| (1) Emphasize quality of care and its relationship to
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| quality of life. | 13 |
| (2) Address the needs of various users of long-term | 14 |
| care
services, including, but not limited to, short-stay | 15 |
| residents,
persons with behavioral problems, persons with | 16 |
| dementia, and
persons who are members of minority groups. | 17 |
| The tools must be identified and applied, to the extent
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| possible, without requiring providers to supply information
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| beyond current State and federal requirements. | 20 |
| (c) Consumer surveys. Following identification
of the | 21 |
| quality measurement tools under subsection (b), the Department | 22 |
| on Aging shall conduct
surveys of consumers of long-term care | 23 |
| services to develop quality
profiles of providers of long-term | 24 |
| care services. To the extent possible, the surveys must be
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| conducted face-to-face by State employees or contractors. At
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| the discretion of the Department, the surveys may be conducted | 27 |
| by
telephone or by provider staff. Surveys must be conducted
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| periodically to update quality profiles of individual service
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| providers. | 30 |
| (d) Dissemination of profiles. By July
1, 2005, the | 31 |
| Department on Aging shall implement a system to
disseminate the | 32 |
| quality profiles developed under this Section. The profiles may | 33 |
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disseminated through the Department to consumers,
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| providers, and purchasers of long-term care services through | 35 |
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feasible printed and electronic outlets. The Department may
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| conduct a public awareness campaign to inform potential users |
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| of long-term care services
regarding profile contents and | 2 |
| potential uses.
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