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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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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 within 10 days of | 8 |
| admission to any nursing facility. A facility shall document in | 9 |
| the resident's medical record that he or she was verbally | 10 |
| screened for risk factors associated with hepatitis B, | 11 |
| hepatitis C, and HIV, and whether or not the resident was | 12 |
| immunized against hepatitis B. Nothing in this subsection (c) | 13 |
| shall apply to a nursing facility licensed or regulated by the | 14 |
| Illinois Department of Veterans' Affairs. | 15 |
| (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 | 17 |
| 1, 2011.
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