Full Text of HB4440 100th General Assembly
HB4440eng 100TH 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 Nursing Home Care Act is amended by changing | 5 | | Section 2-213 as follows:
| 6 | | (210 ILCS 45/2-213)
| 7 | | Sec. 2-213. Vaccinations.
| 8 | | (a) A facility shall annually administer or arrange for | 9 | | administration of a vaccination against influenza to
each
| 10 | | 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
| 14 | | 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
| 23 | | medically
contraindicated or the resident has refused the |
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| 1 | | vaccine. In the event that the
Advisory
Committee on | 2 | | Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and
| 3 | | 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.
| 10 | | (b) A facility shall administer or arrange for | 11 | | administration of a pneumococcal
vaccination to each resident, | 12 | | in accordance with the
recommendations of the Advisory | 13 | | Committee on Immunization Practices of the
Centers
for Disease | 14 | | Control and Prevention, who has not received this immunization
| 15 | | prior to or
upon admission to the facility, unless the resident | 16 | | refuses the offer for
vaccination or the
vaccination is | 17 | | medically contraindicated. A facility shall document in each
| 18 | | resident's
medical record that a vaccination against | 19 | | pneumococcal pneumonia was offered
and administered, arranged, | 20 | | refused, or medically contraindicated.
| 21 | | (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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| 1 | | 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 | | (d) A skilled nursing facility shall designate a person or | 16 | | persons as Infection Prevention and Control Professionals to | 17 | | develop and implement policies governing control of infections | 18 | | and communicable diseases. The Infection Prevention and | 19 | | Control Professionals shall be qualified through education, | 20 | | training, experience, or certification or a combination of such | 21 | | qualifications. The Infection Prevention and Control | 22 | | Professional's qualifications shall be documented and shall be | 23 | | made available for inspection by the Department. | 24 | | (e) The Department shall provide facilities with | 25 | | educational information on all vaccines recommended by the | 26 | | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory |
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| 1 | | Committee on Immunization Practices, including, but not | 2 | | limited to, the risks associated with shingles and how to | 3 | | protect oneself against the varicella-zoster virus. A facility | 4 | | shall distribute the information to: (1) each resident who | 5 | | requests the information; and (2) each newly admitted resident. | 6 | | The facility may distribute the information to residents | 7 | | electronically. | 8 | | (Source: P.A. 97-107, eff. 1-1-12; 98-271, eff. 1-1-14.)
| 9 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January | 10 | | 1, 2019.
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