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90_HB3496

      210 ILCS 45/3-202         from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4153-202
      210 ILCS 85/9.5 new
          Amends  the  Nursing  Home  Care  Act  and  the  Hospital
      Licensing Act to provide that the Department of Public Health
      shall by rule require facilities licensed under the  Acts  to
      develop automatic weather emergency warning systems.
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 1        AN  ACT concerning health care facilities, amending named
 2    Acts.
 3        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section  5.   The  Nursing  Home  Care  Act is amended by
 6    changing Section 3-202 as follows:
 7        (210 ILCS 45/3-202) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4153-202)
 8        Sec.  3-202.  The  Department  shall  prescribe   minimum
 9    standards for facilities. These standards shall regulate:
10        (1)  Location and construction of the facility, including
11    plumbing,  heating, lighting, ventilation, and other physical
12    conditions which shall ensure the health, safety, and comfort
13    of residents and their protection from fire hazard;
14        (2)  Number  and   qualifications   of   all   personnel,
15    including    management   and   nursing   personnel,   having
16    responsibility for any part of the care given  to  residents;
17    specifically,  the Department shall establish staffing ratios
18    for facilities which shall specify the number of staff  hours
19    per resident of care that are needed for professional nursing
20    care   for  various  types  of  facilities  or  areas  within
21    facilities;
22        (3)  All sanitary conditions within the facility and  its
23    surroundings,  including  water supply, sewage disposal, food
24    handling, and general hygiene, which shall ensure the  health
25    and comfort of residents;
26        (4)  Diet  related to the needs of each resident based on
27    good nutritional practice and on recommendations which may be
28    made by the physicians attending the resident;
29        (5)  Equipment essential to the health and welfare of the
30    residents;
31        (6)  A program of  habilitation  and  rehabilitation  for
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 1    those residents who would benefit from such programs;
 2        (7)  A program for adequate maintenance of physical plant
 3    and equipment;
 4        (8)  Adequate  accommodations, staff and services for the
 5    number and types  of  residents  for  whom  the  facility  is
 6    licensed  to  care,  including  standards for temperature and
 7    relative humidity within  comfort  zones  determined  by  the
 8    Department  based  upon  a  combination  of  air temperature,
 9    relative humidity and air  movement.   Such  standards  shall
10    also  require  facility  plans  that  provide  for health and
11    comfort of residents at medical risk  as  determined  by  the
12    attending  physician  whenever  the  temperature and relative
13    humidity are outside such comfort zones  established  by  the
14    Department.
15        (9)  Development  of  evacuation  and  other  appropriate
16    safety  plans  for use during weather, health, fire, physical
17    plant, environmental and national defense emergencies; and
18        (10)  Maintenance of minimum financial or other resources
19    necessary  to  meet  the  standards  established  under  this
20    Section,  and  to  operate  and  conduct  the   facility   in
21    accordance with this Act.
22        The  Department shall by rule require a facility licensed
23    under this Act to  develop  an  automatic  weather  emergency
24    warning system at the facility.
25    (Source: P.A. 83-1530.)
26        Section  10.  The  Hospital  Licensing  Act is amended by
27    adding Section 9.5 as follows:
28        (210 ILCS 85/9.5 new)
29        Sec.  9.5.  Weather  emergency   warning   system.    The
30    Department  shall  by  rule require a facility licensed under
31    this Act to develop an automatic  weather  emergency  warning
32    system at the facility.

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