Full Text of HB1720 96th General Assembly
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning regulation.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Hospital Licensing Act is amended by | 5 | | changing Section 3 as follows:
| 6 | | (210 ILCS 85/3)
| 7 | | Sec. 3. As used in this Act:
| 8 | | (A) "Hospital" means any institution, place, building, | 9 | | buildings on a campus, or agency, public
or private, whether | 10 | | organized for profit or not, devoted primarily to the
| 11 | | maintenance and operation of facilities for the diagnosis and | 12 | | treatment or
care of 2 or more unrelated persons admitted for | 13 | | overnight stay or longer
in order to obtain medical, including | 14 | | obstetric, psychiatric and nursing,
care of illness, disease, | 15 | | injury, infirmity, or deformity.
| 16 | | The term "hospital", without regard to length of stay, | 17 | | shall also
include:
| 18 | | (a) any facility which is devoted primarily to | 19 | | providing psychiatric and
related services and programs | 20 | | for the diagnosis and treatment or care of
2 or more | 21 | | unrelated persons suffering from emotional or nervous | 22 | | diseases;
| 23 | | (b) all places where pregnant females are received, |
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| 1 | | cared for, or
treated during delivery irrespective of the | 2 | | number of patients received.
| 3 | | The term "hospital" includes general and specialized | 4 | | hospitals,
tuberculosis sanitaria, mental or psychiatric | 5 | | hospitals and sanitaria, and
includes maternity homes, | 6 | | lying-in homes, and homes for unwed mothers in
which care is | 7 | | given during delivery.
| 8 | | The term "hospital" does not include:
| 9 | | (1) any person or institution
required to be licensed | 10 | | pursuant to the Nursing Home Care Act or the MR/DD | 11 | | Community Care Act;
| 12 | | (2) hospitalization or care facilities maintained by | 13 | | the State or any
department or agency thereof, where such | 14 | | department or agency has authority
under law to establish | 15 | | and enforce standards for the hospitalization or
care | 16 | | facilities under its management and control;
| 17 | | (3) hospitalization or care facilities maintained by | 18 | | the federal
government or agencies thereof;
| 19 | | (4) hospitalization or care facilities maintained by | 20 | | any university or
college established under the laws of | 21 | | this State and supported principally
by public funds raised | 22 | | by taxation;
| 23 | | (5) any person or facility required to be licensed | 24 | | pursuant to the
Alcoholism and Other Drug Abuse and | 25 | | Dependency Act;
| 26 | | (6) any facility operated solely by and for persons who |
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| 1 | | rely
exclusively upon treatment by spiritual means through | 2 | | prayer, in accordance
with the creed or tenets of any | 3 | | well-recognized church or religious
denomination;
| 4 | | (7) an Alzheimer's disease management center | 5 | | alternative health care
model licensed under the | 6 | | Alternative Health Care Delivery Act; or
| 7 | | (8) any veterinary hospital or clinic operated by a | 8 | | veterinarian or veterinarians licensed under the | 9 | | Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004 or | 10 | | maintained by a State-supported or publicly funded | 11 | | university or college. | 12 | | (B) "Person" means the State, and any political subdivision | 13 | | or municipal
corporation, individual, firm, partnership, | 14 | | corporation, company,
association, or joint stock association, | 15 | | or the legal successor thereof.
| 16 | | (C) "Department" means the Department of Public Health of | 17 | | the State of
Illinois.
| 18 | | (D) "Director" means the Director of Public Health of
the | 19 | | State of Illinois.
| 20 | | (E) "Perinatal" means the period of time
between the | 21 | | conception of an
infant and the end of the first month after | 22 | | birth.
| 23 | | (F) "Federally designated organ procurement agency" means | 24 | | the organ
procurement agency designated by the Secretary of the | 25 | | U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services for the service | 26 | | area in which a hospital is located; except
that in the case of |
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| 1 | | a hospital located in a county adjacent to Wisconsin
which | 2 | | currently contracts with an organ procurement agency located in | 3 | | Wisconsin
that is not the organ procurement agency designated | 4 | | by the U.S. Secretary of
Health and Human Services for the | 5 | | service area in which the hospital is
located, if the hospital | 6 | | applies for a waiver pursuant to 42 USC
1320b-8(a), it may | 7 | | designate an organ procurement agency
located in Wisconsin to | 8 | | be thereafter deemed its federally designated organ
| 9 | | procurement agency for the purposes of this Act.
| 10 | | (G) "Tissue bank" means any facility or program operating | 11 | | in Illinois
that is certified by the American Association of | 12 | | Tissue Banks or the Eye Bank
Association of America and is | 13 | | involved in procuring, furnishing, donating,
or distributing | 14 | | corneas, bones, or other human tissue for the purpose of
| 15 | | injecting, transfusing, or transplanting any of them into the | 16 | | human body.
"Tissue bank" does not include a licensed blood | 17 | | bank. For the purposes of this
Act, "tissue" does not include | 18 | | organs.
| 19 | | (H) "Campus" and "location", as these terms apply to | 20 | | operations, have the same meaning as the term "campus" as set | 21 | | forth in federal Medicare regulations, 42 CFR 413.65. | 22 | | (Source: P.A. 96-219, eff. 8-10-09; 96-339, eff. 7-1-10; | 23 | | 96-1000, eff. 7-2-10.)
| 24 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 25 | | becoming law.
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