Full Text of SB2601 96th General Assembly
SB2601 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010 SB2601
Introduced 1/21/2010, by Sen. Donne E. Trotter SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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Amends the Nursing Home Care Act. Provides that all persons seeking admission to a nursing facility shall be verbally screened for risk factors associated with hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) according to guidelines established by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Provides that persons who are identified as being at high risk for hepatitis B, hepatitis C, or HIV shall be offered an opportunity to undergo laboratory testing if they will be admitted to the nursing facility for at least 7 days and are not known to be infected with any of the listed viruses. Provides that all HIV testing shall be conducted in compliance with the AIDS Confidentiality Act and that all persons determined to be susceptible to the hepatitis B virus shall be offered immunization upon admission to any nursing facility. Requires nursing facilities to document a resident's screening for risk factors associated with hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and HIV, and whether or not the resident was immunized against hepatitis B. Effective January 1, 2011.
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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 | 5 |
| Section 2-213 as follows:
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| (210 ILCS 45/2-213)
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| Sec. 2-213. Vaccinations.
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| (a) A facility shall annually administer or arrange for | 9 |
| administration of a vaccination against influenza to
each
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| resident, in accordance with the recommendations of the | 11 |
| Advisory Committee on
Immunization Practices of the Centers for | 12 |
| Disease Control and Prevention that
are most
recent to the time | 13 |
| of vaccination, unless the vaccination is medically
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| contraindicated or
the resident has refused the vaccine. | 15 |
| Influenza vaccinations for all residents
age 65 and
over shall | 16 |
| be completed by November 30 of each year or as soon as | 17 |
| practicable
if vaccine
supplies are not available before | 18 |
| November 1. Residents admitted after November
30,
during the | 19 |
| flu season, and until February 1 shall, as medically | 20 |
| appropriate,
receive an influenza vaccination prior to or upon | 21 |
| admission or as soon as
practicable if vaccine
supplies are not | 22 |
| available at the time of the admission, unless the vaccine is
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| medically
contraindicated or the resident has refused the |
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| vaccine. In the event that the
Advisory
Committee on | 2 |
| Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and
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| Prevention
determines that dates of administration other than | 4 |
| those stated in this Act are
optimal to
protect the health of | 5 |
| residents, the Department is authorized to develop rules
to | 6 |
| mandate
vaccinations at those times rather than the times | 7 |
| stated in this Act. A
facility shall document in the resident's | 8 |
| medical record that an annual
vaccination against influenza
was | 9 |
| administered, arranged, refused or medically contraindicated.
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| (b) A facility shall administer or arrange for | 11 |
| administration of a pneumococcal
vaccination to each resident | 12 |
| who is age 65 and over, in accordance with the
recommendations | 13 |
| of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the
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| Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, who has not | 15 |
| received this immunization
prior to or
upon admission to the | 16 |
| facility, unless the resident refuses the offer for
vaccination | 17 |
| or the
vaccination is medically contraindicated. A facility | 18 |
| shall document in each
resident's
medical record that a | 19 |
| vaccination against pneumococcal pneumonia was offered
and | 20 |
| administered, arranged, refused, or medically contraindicated.
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| (c) All persons seeking admission to a nursing facility | 22 |
| shall be verbally screened for risk factors associated with | 23 |
| hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and the Human Immunodeficiency Virus | 24 |
| (HIV) according to guidelines established by the U.S. Centers | 25 |
| for Disease Control and Prevention. Persons who are identified | 26 |
| as being at high risk for hepatitis B, hepatitis C, or HIV |
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| shall be offered an opportunity to undergo laboratory testing | 2 |
| in order to determine infection status if they will be admitted | 3 |
| to the nursing facility for at least 7 days and are not known | 4 |
| to be infected with any of the listed viruses. All HIV testing | 5 |
| shall be conducted in compliance with the AIDS Confidentiality | 6 |
| Act. All persons determined to be susceptible to the hepatitis | 7 |
| B virus shall be offered immunization upon admission to any | 8 |
| nursing facility. A facility shall document in the resident's | 9 |
| medical record that he or she was verbally screened for risk | 10 |
| factors associated with hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and HIV, and | 11 |
| whether or not the resident was immunized against hepatitis B. | 12 |
| (Source: P.A. 93-384, eff. 7-25-03; 94-429, eff. 8-2-05.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January | 14 |
| 1, 2011.
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