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92_HB2473
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1 AN ACT concerning medicine.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Excellence in Academic Medicine Act is
5 amended by changing Section 15 as follows:
6 (30 ILCS 775/15)
7 Sec. 15. Definitions. As used in this Act:
8 "Academic medical center hospital" means a hospital
9 located in Illinois which is either (i) under common
10 ownership with the college of medicine of a college or
11 university or (ii) a free-standing hospital in which the
12 majority of the clinical chiefs of service are department
13 chairmen in an affiliated medical school.
14 "Academic medical center children's hospital" means a
15 children's hospital which is separately incorporated and
16 non-integrated into the academic medical center hospital but
17 which is the pediatric partner for an academic medical center
18 hospital and which serves as the primary teaching hospital
19 for pediatrics for its affiliated medical school; children's
20 hospitals which are separately incorporated but integrated
21 into the academic medical center hospital are considered part
22 of the academic medical center hospital.
23 "Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area academic
24 medical center hospital" means an academic medical center
25 hospital located in the Chicago Medicare Metropolitan
26 Statistical Area.
27 "Non-Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area
28 academic medical center hospital" means an academic medical
29 center hospital located outside the Chicago Medicare
30 Metropolitan Statistical Area.
31 "Qualified Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area
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1 academic medical center hospital" means any Chicago Medicare
2 Metropolitan Statistical Area academic medical center
3 hospital that either directly or in connection with its
4 affiliated medical school receives in excess of $8,000,000 in
5 grants or contracts from the National Institutes of Health
6 during the calendar year preceding the beginning of the State
7 fiscal year; except that for the purposes of Section 25, the
8 term also includes the entity specified in subsection (e) of
9 that Section.
10 "Qualified Non-Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical
11 Area academic medical center hospital" means the primary
12 teaching hospital for the University of Illinois School of
13 Medicine at Peoria and the primary teaching hospital for the
14 University of Illinois School of Medicine at Rockford and the
15 primary teaching hospital for the University of Illinois
16 School of Medicine at Urbana and the primary teaching
17 hospitals for Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
18 in Springfield.
19 "Qualified academic medical center hospital" means (i) a
20 qualified Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area
21 academic medical center hospital, (ii) a qualified
22 Non-Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area academic
23 medical center hospital, or (iii) an academic medical center
24 children's hospital.
25 "Qualified programs" include:
26 (i) Thoracic Transplantation: heart and lung, in
27 particular;
28 (ii) Cancer: particularly biologic modifiers of
29 tumor response, and mechanisms of drug resistance in
30 cancer therapy;
31 (iii) Shock/Burn: development of biological
32 alternatives to skin for grafting in burn injury, and
33 research in mechanisms of shock and tissue injury in
34 severe injury;
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1 (iv) Abdominal transplantation: kidney, liver,
2 pancreas, and development of islet cell and small bowel
3 transplantation technologies;
4 (v) Minimally invasive surgery: particularly
5 laparoscopic surgery;
6 (vi) High performance medical computing:
7 telemedicine and teleradiology;
8 (vii) Transmyocardial laser revascularization: a
9 laser creates holes in heart muscles to allow new blood
10 flow;
11 (viii) Pet scanning: viewing how organs function
12 (CT and MRI only allow viewing of the structure of an
13 organ);
14 (ix) Strokes in the African-American community:
15 particularly risk factors for cerebral vascular accident
16 (strokes) in the African-American community at much
17 higher risk than the general population;
18 (x) Neurosurgery: particularly focusing on
19 interventional neuroradiology;
20 (xi) Comprehensive eye center: including further
21 development in pediatric eye trauma;
22 (xii) Cancers: particularly melanoma, head and
23 neck;
24 (xiii) Pediatric cancer;
25 (xiv) Invasive pediatric cardiology;
26 (xv) Pediatric organ transplantation:
27 transplantation of solid organs, marrow, and other stem
28 cells; and
29 (xvi) Such other programs as may be identified.
30 (Source: P.A. 89-506, eff. 7-3-96.)