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Illinois Compiled Statutes
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() 55 ILCS 5/Div. 5-37
(55 ILCS 5/Div. 5-37 heading)
Division 5-37.
County Hospitals - Counties
over 1,000,000 Population
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55 ILCS 5/5-37001
(55 ILCS 5/5-37001) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-37001)
Sec. 5-37001.
Applicability; subtitle.
This Division shall apply
only in counties containing 1,000,000 or more inhabitants, and shall be
subtitled the "County Hospitals Law".
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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55 ILCS 5/5-37002
(55 ILCS 5/5-37002) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-37002)
Sec. 5-37002.
Legislative declaration.
The General Assembly recognizes that adequate health care is a
fundamental right of the people of the State of Illinois; that there
should be no distinction in the availability of quality health care
based upon one's inability to pay; that the alarming acceleration of
health care costs often results in calamitous financial burdens for the
unfortunate families which suffer major illnesses or injuries; and that
there exists an urgent need for substantial improvement in the State's
ability to provide health care services to the indigent in a proficient
and compassionate manner. Therefore, it is the intent of the General
Assembly to establish efficient and economical systems of public health
care delivery in densely populated counties throughout the State.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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55 ILCS 5/5-37003
(55 ILCS 5/5-37003) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-37003)
Sec. 5-37003.
Duties and powers of board of commissioners.
The Board of Commissioners shall have and exercise all rights,
powers and duties heretofore exercised by the Commission. All books,
records, papers, documents, property, real and personal, unexpended
appropriations and pending business in any way pertaining to the rights,
powers and duties of the Commission shall be transferred and delivered to
the Board of Commissioners. All rights, duties and obligations of the
Commission shall become the rights, duties and obligations of the Board
of Commissioners.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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55 ILCS 5/5-37004
(55 ILCS 5/5-37004) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-37004)
Sec. 5-37004.
Contracts for operation of hospitals, programs and
services. The Board of Commissioners may contract with one or more
responsible corporations, hospitals, health care
facilities or units of local government or with the
governing authorities of any institution of higher education, and
specifically may enter into joint ventures and reciprocal agreements with
the University of Illinois Hospital, for the
operation of any hospital, health or allied medical research programs
and for the provision of any medical, surgical, or nursing, health,
research or laboratory services which the county has been or may be
required or authorized by law to provide, and the Board may
contract for any other service for the convenience of its operations as
it may deem advisable.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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55 ILCS 5/5-37005
(55 ILCS 5/5-37005) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-37005)
Sec. 5-37005.
Budget; appropriations.
The Board of
Commissioners of such county shall prepare a consolidated
budget covering all anticipated income, expenses, and capital
outlays of any such hospital, hospital facility and the hospital,
medical, nursing, health and allied medical programs related thereto,
of any comprehensive health plans and services provided in accordance
with such plans, and of any agreement or contracts with public or
private nonprofit hospitals or health care facilities. The Board of
Commissioners shall appropriate, in accordance with Division 6-24,
a sufficient sum of money as the Board deems necessary to meet the
expenses and to carry out the provisions of this Division.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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55 ILCS 5/5-37006
(55 ILCS 5/5-37006) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-37006)
Sec. 5-37006. Reimbursement for cost of services. In relation
to inpatient hospital services provided at any health care facility
maintained by the Commission to any person under the legal custody of the
Sheriff of Cook County pending trial the Commission may obtain
reimbursement from the confined person to whom the services were provided
for the cost of such services to the extent that such person is reasonably
able to pay for such care, including reimbursement from any insurance
program or from other medical benefit programs available to such person.
If such person has already been determined eligible for medical assistance
under the Illinois Public Aid Code at the time the person is initially
detained pending trial, the cost of such services, to the extent such cost
exceeds $2,500, shall be reimbursed by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services under
that Act. A reimbursement under any public or private program authorized
by this Section shall be paid to the Commission to the same extent as would
obtain had the services been rendered in a non-custodial environment.
This Section does not apply to services provided to any person who
has been convicted of or has pleaded guilty to an offense and is held in
custody pending sentencing or under sentence of the court.
(Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)
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55 ILCS 5/5-37007
(55 ILCS 5/5-37007) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-37007)
Sec. 5-37007.
Reports to Department of Public Health.
The Board
of Commissioners shall submit a semi-annual report in
writing to the Illinois Department of Public Health including, but not
limited to: conditions, plans and programs of the Board and the
hospitals, facilities, and programs under its control.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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55 ILCS 5/5-37008
(55 ILCS 5/5-37008) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-37008)
Sec. 5-37008.
Operation plans.
The Board of Commissioners shall
submit to the General Assembly on or before May 1, 1980 a plan by which the
facilities and programs under this Division can be operated in a fiscally
responsible manner. The plan shall consider both short-term and long-term
expenditures necessary for operations and capital developments. In
addition the plan shall contain an assessment of the level of health care
which the facilities and programs are able to deliver and an estimate of
any additional revenues the Board might deem necessary to provide
continuous, quality health care for the residents of Cook County.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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55 ILCS 5/5-37009
(55 ILCS 5/5-37009) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-37009)
Sec. 5-37009.
Exemptions.
This Division shall not apply to
sanitariums or other facilities established under Division 5-23, nor under
"AN ACT to provide for the creation and management of tuberculosis
sanitarium districts", approved May 21, 1937, as amended.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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55 ILCS 5/5-37010
(55 ILCS 5/5-37010) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-37010)
Sec. 5-37010.
Audit of accounts.
The accounts and records of
financial transactions of the hospitals, facilities and programs managed
pursuant to this Division shall be subject to audit by the County Auditor
of Cook County and by the Auditor General of the State of Illinois and the
Board of Commissioners shall in addition authorize at least annually an
official or certified audit.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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55 ILCS 5/5-37011
(55 ILCS 5/5-37011) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-37011)
Sec. 5-37011. Hospital security police force. The board of
commissioners, subject to the applicable merit system rules, may establish
and maintain a Hospital Security Police Force and may define and prescribe
all such peace officers' duties and compensation. Every security police
officer appointed by the board to such Security Police Force, as the same
shall be from time to time hereafter constituted, shall have and is hereby
vested with police powers, and is hereby authorized to act as a conservator
of the peace within and upon any and all hospital facilities operated and
hospital premises controlled by such board, and shall have power to make
arrests or cause to be arrested, with or without process, any person who
breaks the peace, or may be found violating any State statutes or city or
county ordinances within or upon such facilities or premises.
The board may establish reasonable eligibility requirements for appointment
to such Security Police Force relating to residence, health, habits and
moral character. However, no person may be appointed hereunder unless that
person is at least 21 years of age. No person may be appointed to or be
retained in the Hospital Security Police Force unless that person is of
good character and not a habitual drunkard, gambler or a person convicted
of a felony or a crime involving moral turpitude. All Security Police Force
personnel authorized to carry weapons within or upon hospital facilities
or premises while on-duty shall receive a course of training in the legal
and practical use of such weapons as is required of a police officer under
the Peace Officer and Probation Officer Firearm Training Act and all such Security Police Force personnel
shall also have received the training and certification required by the
"Illinois Police Training Act" as now or hereafter amended. Security Police
Force personnel shall not carry weapons while off-duty and all weapons shall
be checked and secured on the hospital premises while such personnel remain
off-duty.
(Source: P.A. 98-725, eff. 1-1-15 .)
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55 ILCS 5/Div. 5-38
(55 ILCS 5/Div. 5-38 heading)
Division 5-38.
Public County
Library Service
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55 ILCS 5/5-38001
(55 ILCS 5/5-38001) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-38001)
Sec. 5-38001.
Establishment, equipment and maintenance.
Subject
to the provisions of Section 5-38012, every county board shall establish,
equip and maintain a public county library service.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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