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92_SB0445

 
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 1        AN ACT concerning academic 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 Sections 15, 20, 30, and 60 and by adding
 6    Section 35 as follows:

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

 3        (30 ILCS 775/20)
 4        Sec. 20. Establishment of Funds.
 5        (a)  The Medical Research and Development Fund is created
 6    in the State Treasury to which the General Assembly may  from
 7    time to time appropriate funds and from which the Comptroller
 8    shall pay amounts as authorized by law.
 9             (i)  The  following  accounts  are  created  in  the
10        Medical  Research  and  Development  Fund:  The  National
11        Institutes  of  Health Account; the Philanthropic Medical
12        Research  Account;  and  the  Market   Medical   Research
13        Account.
14             (ii)  Funds appropriated to the Medical Research and
15        Development  Fund  shall  be assigned in equal amounts to
16        each account within the Fund, subject to  transferability
17        of funds under subsection (c) of Section 25.
18        (b)  The  Post-Tertiary Clinical Services Fund is created
19    in the State Treasury to which the General Assembly may  from
20    time to time appropriate funds and from which the Comptroller
21    shall pay amounts as authorized by law.
22        (c)  The  Centers for Medical Research Fund is created in
23    the State treasury to which the  General  Assembly  may  from
24    time to time appropriate funds and from which the Comptroller
25    shall pay amounts as authorized by law.
26    (Source: P.A. 89-506, eff. 7-3-96.)

27        (30 ILCS 775/30)
28        Sec.  30.  Post-Tertiary  Clinical Services Program.  The
29    State  shall  provide  incentives  to  develop  and   enhance
30    post-tertiary  clinical services.  Qualified academic medical
31    center hospitals as defined in Section 15 may receive funding
32    under the Post-Tertiary Clinical Services Program for up to 3
 
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 1    qualified programs as defined in  Section  15  in  any  given
 2    year;  however,  qualified  academic medical center hospitals
 3    may receive continued funding for previously funded qualified
 4    programs rather than receive funding for  a  new  program  so
 5    long  as  the  number of qualified programs receiving funding
 6    does not exceed 3.  Subject to the  restrictions  of  Section
 7    60,  each  qualified  academic  medical  center  hospital  as
 8    defined  in  Section  15 shall receive an equal percentage of
 9    the Post-Tertiary Clinical Services Fund to be  used  in  the
10    funding  of  qualified  programs.   One quarter of the amount
11    payable to each qualified academic  medical  center  hospital
12    shall  be  paid  on  the  fifteenth working day after July 1,
13    October 1, January 1, and March 1.
14    (Source: P.A. 89-506, eff. 7-3-96.)

15        (30 ILCS 775/35 new)
16        Sec. 35.  The Centers for Medical Research Program.   The
17    State shall provide financial incentives to encourage private
18    and federal funding for biomedical and biotech research.  Any
19    hospital  that  is  eligible to receive funds from either the
20    Medical Research and Development Fund  or  the  Post-Tertiary
21    Clinical  Services  Fund  shall  receive  a percentage of the
22    moneys  available  for  distribution  from  the  Centers  for
23    Medical Research Fund, a special fund in the State  treasury,
24    equal  to  that  hospital's percentage of the total contracts
25    and  grants  awarded  to  all  hospitals  applying  for  this
26    Program.

27        (30 ILCS 775/60)
28        Sec. 60.  Restriction  on  funds.   No  academic  medical
29    center  hospital  shall  be  eligible  for  payments from the
30    Medical Research and Development  Fund  unless  the  academic
31    medical  center  hospital  qualifies  under  Section  15 as a
32    qualified  Chicago  Medicare  Metropolitan  Statistical  Area
 
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 1    academic medical center hospital which in connection with its
 2    affiliated medical school received at least $8,000,000 in the
 3    preceding calendar year  in  grants  or  contracts  from  the
 4    National  Institutes  of Health; except that this restriction
 5    does not apply to the entity specified in subsection  (e)  of
 6    Section 25.
 7        Beginning with the State fiscal year beginning on July 1,
 8    2001  and  for each State fiscal year thereafter, the primary
 9    teaching hospital for the University of  Illinois  School  of
10    Medicine   at  Urbana,  the  primary  teaching  hospital  for
11    Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and  the  primary
12    teaching  hospitals  for the University of Illinois School of
13    Medicine in the City of Park Ridge and  the  Village  of  Oak
14    Lawn   are  eligible  for  payments  from  the  Post-Tertiary
15    Clinical  Services  Fund  only  with   respect   to   amounts
16    appropriated  in  that  State  fiscal  year  by  the  General
17    Assembly   above  $11,800,000.    The  eligibility  of  these
18    hospitals, for the amounts from  the  Post-Tertiary  Clinical
19    Services Fund above $11,800,000 is on an equal basis with all
20    other eligible academic medical center hospitals.
21    (Source: P.A. 89-506, eff. 7-3-96.)

22        Section  10.   The State Finance Act is amended by adding
23    Section 5.545 as follows:

24        (30 ILCS 105/5.545 new)
25        Sec. 5.545.  The Centers for Medical Research Fund.

26        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
27    becoming law.

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