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1 AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 445
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend Senate Bill 445 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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.
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1 "Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area academic
2 medical center hospital" means an academic medical center
3 hospital located in the Chicago Medicare Metropolitan
4 Statistical Area.
5 "Non-Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area
6 academic medical center hospital" means an academic medical
7 center hospital located outside the Chicago Medicare
8 Metropolitan Statistical Area.
9 "Qualified Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area
10 academic medical center hospital" means any Chicago Medicare
11 Metropolitan Statistical Area academic medical center
12 hospital that either directly or in connection with its
13 affiliated medical school receives in excess of $8,000,000 in
14 grants or contracts from the National Institutes of Health
15 during the calendar year preceding the beginning of the State
16 fiscal year; except that for the purposes of Section 25, the
17 term also includes the entity specified in subsection (e) of
18 that Section.
19 "Qualified Non-Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical
20 Area academic medical center hospital" means the primary
21 teaching hospital for the University of Illinois School of
22 Medicine at Peoria and the primary teaching hospital for the
23 University of Illinois School of Medicine at Rockford and the
24 primary teaching hospital for the University of Illinois
25 School of Medicine at Urbana and the primary teaching
26 hospitals for Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
27 in Springfield.
28 "Qualified academic medical center hospital" means (i) a
29 qualified Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area
30 academic medical center hospital, (ii) a qualified
31 Non-Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area academic
32 medical center hospital, or (iii) an academic medical center
33 children's hospital.
34 "Qualified programs" include:
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1 (i) Thoracic Transplantation: heart and lung, in
2 particular;
3 (ii) Cancer: particularly biologic modifiers of
4 tumor response, and mechanisms of drug resistance in
5 cancer therapy;
6 (iii) Shock/Burn: development of biological
7 alternatives to skin for grafting in burn injury, and
8 research in mechanisms of shock and tissue injury in
9 severe injury;
10 (iv) Abdominal transplantation: kidney, liver,
11 pancreas, and development of islet cell and small bowel
12 transplantation technologies;
13 (v) Minimally invasive surgery: particularly
14 laparoscopic surgery;
15 (vi) High performance medical computing:
16 telemedicine and teleradiology;
17 (vii) Transmyocardial laser revascularization: a
18 laser creates holes in heart muscles to allow new blood
19 flow;
20 (viii) Pet scanning: viewing how organs function
21 (CT and MRI only allow viewing of the structure of an
22 organ);
23 (ix) Strokes in the African-American community:
24 particularly risk factors for cerebral vascular accident
25 (strokes) in the African-American community at much
26 higher risk than the general population;
27 (x) Neurosurgery: particularly focusing on
28 interventional neuroradiology;
29 (xi) Comprehensive eye center: including further
30 development in pediatric eye trauma;
31 (xii) Cancers: particularly melanoma, head and
32 neck;
33 (xiii) Pediatric cancer;
34 (xiv) Invasive pediatric cardiology;
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1 (xv) Pediatric organ transplantation:
2 transplantation of solid organs, marrow, and other stem
3 cells; and
4 (xvi) Such other programs as may be identified.
5 (Source: P.A. 89-506, eff. 7-3-96.)".