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 1        AN ACT in relation to State finances.

 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.)

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