Full Text of SB3067 93rd General Assembly
SB3067 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004 SB3067
Introduced 2/6/2004, by Iris Y. Martinez SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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Creates the Cultural and Linguistic Competency of Physicians Act. Creates the
Cultural and Linguistic Physician Competency Program to be operated by local medical societies of the
Illinois State Medical Society and monitored by the Department of Professional Regulation.
Provides that the program is voluntary and shall consist of educational classes designed to teach physicians (1) a foreign language at the level of proficiency that initially
improves their ability to communicate with non-English speaking
patients, (2) understanding and applying the roles that culture, ethnicity,
and race play in diagnosis, treatment, and clinical care, and (3) awareness of how the attitudes, values, and beliefs of health care providers and patients influence and impact professional and
patient relations. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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LRB093 21045 AMC 47066 b |
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| AN ACT concerning physicians.
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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 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the | 5 |
| Cultural and Linguistic Competency of Physicians Act. | 6 |
| Section 5. Definitions. For purposes of this Act: | 7 |
| "Cultural and linguistic
competency" means cultural and | 8 |
| linguistic abilities that can be
incorporated into therapeutic | 9 |
| and medical evaluation and treatment,
including, but not | 10 |
| limited to, the following:
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| (1) Direct communication in the patient-client primary | 12 |
| language.
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| (2) Understanding and applying the roles that culture, | 14 |
| ethnicity,
and race play in diagnosis, treatment, and | 15 |
| clinical care.
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| (3) Awareness of how the attitudes, values, and beliefs | 17 |
| of health care providers and patients influence and impact | 18 |
| professional and
patient relations.
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| "Department" means the Department of Professional | 20 |
| Regulation. | 21 |
| Section 10. Cultural and Linguistic Physician Competency | 22 |
| Program. | 23 |
| (a) The
Cultural and Linguistic Physician Competency | 24 |
| Program is hereby
established and shall be operated by local | 25 |
| medical societies of the
Illinois State Medical Society and | 26 |
| shall be monitored by the Department of Professional | 27 |
| Regulation.
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| (b) This program shall be a voluntary program for all | 29 |
| interested
physicians. As a primary objective, the program | 30 |
| shall consist of
educational classes that shall be designed to | 31 |
| teach physicians the
following:
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| (1) A foreign language at the level of proficiency that | 2 |
| initially
improves their ability to communicate with | 3 |
| non-English speaking
patients.
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| (2) A foreign language at the level of proficiency that | 5 |
| eventually
enables direct communication with the | 6 |
| non-English speaking patients.
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| (3) Cultural beliefs and practices that may impact | 8 |
| patient health
care practices and allow physicians to | 9 |
| incorporate this knowledge in
the diagnosis and treatment | 10 |
| of patients who are not from the
predominant culture in | 11 |
| Illinois.
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| (c) The program shall operate through local medical | 13 |
| societies and
shall be developed to address the ethnic language | 14 |
| minority groups of
interest to local medical societies.
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| (d) In dealing with Spanish language and cultural practices | 16 |
| of
Mexican immigrant communities, the cultural and linguistic | 17 |
| training
program shall be developed with direct input from | 18 |
| physician groups in
Mexico who serve the same immigrant | 19 |
| population in Mexico. A similar
approach may be used for any of | 20 |
| the languages and cultures that are
taught by the program or | 21 |
| appropriate ethnic medical societies may be
consulted for the | 22 |
| development of these programs.
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| (e) Training programs shall be based and developed on the
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| established knowledge of providers already serving target | 25 |
| populations
and shall be formulated in collaboration with the | 26 |
| Illinois State Medical Society, the Department of Professional | 27 |
| Regulation, and Illinois-based
ethnic medical societies.
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| (f) Programs shall include standards that identify the | 29 |
| degree of
competency for participants who successfully | 30 |
| complete independent
parts of the course of instruction.
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| (g) Programs shall seek accreditation by an accrediting | 32 |
| body approved by the Department. | 33 |
| (h) The Department shall convene a workgroup including,
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| not limited to, representatives of affected patient | 35 |
| populations,
medical societies engaged in program delivery, | 36 |
| and community clinics
to perform the following functions:
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| (1) Evaluation of the progress made in the achievement | 2 |
| of the
intent of this Act.
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| (2) Determination of the means by which achievement of | 4 |
| the intent
of this Act can be enhanced.
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| (3) Evaluation of the reasonableness and the | 6 |
| consistency of the
standards developed by those entities | 7 |
| delivering the program.
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| (4) Determination and recommendation of the credit to | 9 |
| be given to
participants who successfully complete the | 10 |
| identified programs.
Factors to be considered in this | 11 |
| determination shall include, at a
minimum, compliance with | 12 |
| requirements for continuing medical
education and | 13 |
| eligibility for increased rates of reimbursement under
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| medical assistance program under Article V of the Illinois | 15 |
| Public Aid Code, Family Care and KidCare under the | 16 |
| Children's Health Insurance Program Act, and health | 17 |
| maintenance
organization contracts.
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| (i) Funding shall be provided by fees charged to physicians | 19 |
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elect to take these educational classes and any other funds | 20 |
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local medical societies may secure for this purpose.
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| (j) A survey for language minority patients shall be | 22 |
| developed and
distributed by local medical societies, to | 23 |
| measure the degree of
satisfaction with physicians who have | 24 |
| taken the educational classes
on cultural and linguistic | 25 |
| competency provided under this Section.
Local medical | 26 |
| societies shall also develop an evaluation survey
for | 27 |
| physicians to assess the
quality of educational or training | 28 |
| programs on cultural and
linguistic competency. This | 29 |
| information shall be shared with the
workgroup established by | 30 |
| the Department.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 32 |
| becoming law.
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