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Public Act 096-1373


 

Public Act 1373 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY



 


 
Public Act 096-1373
 
SB2863 EnrolledLRB096 16937 RPM 32250 b

    AN ACT concerning regulation.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Nursing Home Care Act is amended by adding
Section 3-808.5 as follows:
 
    (210 ILCS 45/3-808.5 new)
    Sec. 3-808.5. Nursing home fraud, abuse, and neglect
prevention and reporting.
    (a) Every licensed long term care facility that receives
Medicaid funding shall prominently display in its lobby, in its
dining areas, and on each floor of the facility information
approved by the Illinois Medicaid Fraud Control Unit on how to
report fraud, abuse, and neglect. In addition, information
regarding the reporting of fraud, abuse, and neglect shall be
provided to each resident at the time of admission and to the
resident's family members or emergency contacts, or to both the
resident's family members and his or her emergency contacts.
    (b) Any owner or licensee of a long term care facility
licensed under this Act shall be responsible for the collection
and maintenance of any and all records required to be
maintained under this Section and any other applicable
provisions of this Act, and as a provider under the Illinois
Public Aid Code, and shall be responsible for compliance with
all of the disclosure requirements under this Section. All
books and records and other papers and documents that are
required to be kept, and all records showing compliance with
all of the disclosure requirements to be made pursuant to this
Section, shall be kept at the facility and shall, at all times
during business hours, be subject to inspection by any law
enforcement or health oversight agency or its duly authorized
agents or employees.
    (c) Any report of abuse and neglect of residents made by
any individual in whatever manner, including, but not limited
to, reports made under Sections 2-107 and 3-610 of this Act, or
as provided under the Abused and Neglected Long Term Care
Facility Residents Reporting Act, that is made to an
administrator, a director of nursing, or any other person with
management responsibility at a long term care facility must be
disclosed to the owners and licensee of the facility within 24
hours of the report. The owners and licensee of a long term
care facility shall maintain all records necessary to show
compliance with this disclosure requirement.
    (d) Any person with an ownership interest in a long term
care facility licensed by the Department must, within 30 days
of the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th
General Assembly, disclose the existence of any ownership
interest in any vendor who does business with the facility. The
disclosures required by this subsection shall be made in the
form and manner prescribed by the Department. Licensed long
term care facilities who receive Medicaid funding shall submit
a copy of the disclosures required by this subsection to the
Illinois Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. The owners and licensee
of a long term care facility shall maintain all records
necessary to show compliance with this disclosure requirement.
    (e) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3-318 of this
Act, and in addition thereto, any person, owner, or licensee
who willfully fails to keep and maintain, or willfully fails to
produce for inspection, books and records, or willfully fails
to make the disclosures required by this Section, is guilty of
a Class A misdemeanor. A second or subsequent violation of this
Section shall be punishable as a Class 4 felony.
    (f) Any owner or licensee who willfully files or willfully
causes to be filed a document with false information with the
Department, the Department of Healthcare and Family Services,
or the Illinois Medicaid Fraud Control Unit or any other law
enforcement agency, is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.
 
    Section 10. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by
changing Section 12-19 as follows:
 
    (720 ILCS 5/12-19)  (from Ch. 38, par. 12-19)
    (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 96-339)
    Sec. 12-19. Abuse and Criminal Neglect of a Long Term Care
Facility Resident.
    (a) Any person or any owner or licensee of a long term care
facility who abuses a long term care facility resident is
guilty of a Class 3 felony. Any person or any owner or licensee
of a long term care facility who criminally neglects a long
term care facility resident is guilty of a Class 4 felony. A
person whose criminal neglect of a long term care facility
resident results in the resident's death is guilty of a Class 3
felony. However, nothing herein shall be deemed to apply to a
physician licensed to practice medicine in all its branches or
a duly licensed nurse providing care within the scope of his or
her professional judgment and within the accepted standards of
care within the community.
    (b) Notwithstanding the penalties in subsections (a) and
(c) and in addition thereto, if a licensee or owner of a long
term care facility or his or her employee has caused neglect of
a resident, the licensee or owner is guilty of a petty offense.
An owner or licensee is guilty under this subsection (b) only
if the owner or licensee failed to exercise reasonable care in
the hiring, training, supervising or providing of staff or
other related routine administrative responsibilities.
    (c) Notwithstanding the penalties in subsections (a) and
(b) and in addition thereto, if a licensee or owner of a long
term care facility or his or her employee has caused gross
neglect of a resident, the licensee or owner is guilty of a
business offense for which a fine of not more than $10,000 may
be imposed. An owner or licensee is guilty under this
subsection (c) only if the owner or licensee failed to exercise
reasonable care in the hiring, training, supervising or
providing of staff or other related routine administrative
responsibilities.
    (d) For the purpose of this Section:
        (1) "Abuse" means intentionally or knowingly causing
    any physical or mental injury or committing any sexual
    offense set forth in this Code.
        (2) "Criminal neglect" means an act whereby a person
    recklessly (i) performs acts that cause an elderly person's
    or person with a disability's life to be endangered, health
    to be injured, or pre-existing physical or mental condition
    to deteriorate or that create the substantial likelihood
    that an elderly person's or person with a disability's life
    will be endangered, health will be injured, or pre-existing
    physical or mental condition will deteriorate, or (ii)
    fails to perform acts that he or she knows or reasonably
    should know are necessary to maintain or preserve the life
    or health of an elderly person or person with a disability,
    and that failure causes the elderly person's or person with
    a disability's life to be endangered, health to be injured,
    or pre-existing physical or mental condition to
    deteriorate or that create the substantial likelihood that
    an elderly person's or person with a disability's life will
    be endangered, health will be injured, or pre-existing
    physical or mental condition will deteriorate, or (iii)
    abandons an elderly person or person with a disability.
        (3) "Neglect" means negligently failing to provide
    adequate medical or personal care or maintenance, which
    failure results in physical or mental injury or the
    deterioration of a physical or mental condition.
        (4) "Resident" means a person residing in a long term
    care facility.
        (5) "Owner" means the person who owns a long term care
    facility as provided under the Nursing Home Care Act or an
    assisted living or shared housing establishment under the
    Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act.
        (6) "Licensee" means the individual or entity licensed
    to operate a facility under the Nursing Home Care Act or
    the Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act.
        (7) "Facility" or "long term care facility" means a
    private home, institution, building, residence, or any
    other place, whether operated for profit or not, or a
    county home for the infirm and chronically ill operated
    pursuant to Division 5-21 or 5-22 of the Counties Code, or
    any similar institution operated by the State of Illinois
    or a political subdivision thereof, which provides,
    through its ownership or management, personal care,
    sheltered care or nursing for 3 or more persons not related
    to the owner by blood or marriage. The term also includes
    skilled nursing facilities and intermediate care
    facilities as defined in Title XVIII and Title XIX of the
    federal Social Security Act and assisted living
    establishments and shared housing establishments licensed
    under the Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act.
    (e) Nothing contained in this Section shall be deemed to
apply to the medical supervision, regulation or control of the
remedial care or treatment of residents in a facility conducted
for those who rely upon treatment by prayer or spiritual means
in accordance with the creed or tenets of any well recognized
church or religious denomination and which is licensed in
accordance with Section 3-803 of the Nursing Home Care Act.
(Source: P.A. 93-301, eff. 1-1-04.)
 
    (Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 96-339)
    Sec. 12-19. Abuse and Criminal Neglect of a Long Term Care
Facility Resident.
    (a) Any person or any owner or licensee of a long term care
facility who abuses a long term care facility resident is
guilty of a Class 3 felony. Any person or any owner or licensee
of a long term care facility who criminally neglects a long
term care facility resident is guilty of a Class 4 felony. A
person whose criminal neglect of a long term care facility
resident results in the resident's death is guilty of a Class 3
felony. However, nothing herein shall be deemed to apply to a
physician licensed to practice medicine in all its branches or
a duly licensed nurse providing care within the scope of his or
her professional judgment and within the accepted standards of
care within the community.
    (b) Notwithstanding the penalties in subsections (a) and
(c) and in addition thereto, if a licensee or owner of a long
term care facility or his or her employee has caused neglect of
a resident, the licensee or owner is guilty of a petty offense.
An owner or licensee is guilty under this subsection (b) only
if the owner or licensee failed to exercise reasonable care in
the hiring, training, supervising or providing of staff or
other related routine administrative responsibilities.
    (c) Notwithstanding the penalties in subsections (a) and
(b) and in addition thereto, if a licensee or owner of a long
term care facility or his or her employee has caused gross
neglect of a resident, the licensee or owner is guilty of a
business offense for which a fine of not more than $10,000 may
be imposed. An owner or licensee is guilty under this
subsection (c) only if the owner or licensee failed to exercise
reasonable care in the hiring, training, supervising or
providing of staff or other related routine administrative
responsibilities.
    (d) For the purpose of this Section:
        (1) "Abuse" means intentionally or knowingly causing
    any physical or mental injury or committing any sexual
    offense set forth in this Code.
        (2) "Criminal neglect" means an act whereby a person
    recklessly (i) performs acts that cause an elderly person's
    or person with a disability's life to be endangered, health
    to be injured, or pre-existing physical or mental condition
    to deteriorate or that create the substantial likelihood
    that an elderly person's or person with a disability's life
    will be endangered, health will be injured, or pre-existing
    physical or mental condition will deteriorate, or (ii)
    fails to perform acts that he or she knows or reasonably
    should know are necessary to maintain or preserve the life
    or health of an elderly person or person with a disability,
    and that failure causes the elderly person's or person with
    a disability's life to be endangered, health to be injured,
    or pre-existing physical or mental condition to
    deteriorate or that create the substantial likelihood that
    an elderly person's or person with a disability's life will
    be endangered, health will be injured, or pre-existing
    physical or mental condition will deteriorate, or (iii)
    abandons an elderly person or person with a disability.
        (3) "Neglect" means negligently failing to provide
    adequate medical or personal care or maintenance, which
    failure results in physical or mental injury or the
    deterioration of a physical or mental condition.
        (4) "Resident" means a person residing in a long term
    care facility.
        (5) "Owner" means the person who owns a long term care
    facility as provided under the Nursing Home Care Act, a
    facility as provided under the MR/DD Community Care Act, or
    an assisted living or shared housing establishment under
    the Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act.
        (6) "Licensee" means the individual or entity licensed
    to operate a facility under the Nursing Home Care Act, the
    MR/DD Community Care Act, or the Assisted Living and Shared
    Housing Act.
        (7) "Facility" or "long term care facility" means a
    private home, institution, building, residence, or any
    other place, whether operated for profit or not, or a
    county home for the infirm and chronically ill operated
    pursuant to Division 5-21 or 5-22 of the Counties Code, or
    any similar institution operated by the State of Illinois
    or a political subdivision thereof, which provides,
    through its ownership or management, personal care,
    sheltered care or nursing for 3 or more persons not related
    to the owner by blood or marriage. The term also includes
    skilled nursing facilities and intermediate care
    facilities as defined in Title XVIII and Title XIX of the
    federal Social Security Act and assisted living
    establishments and shared housing establishments licensed
    under the Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act.
    (e) Nothing contained in this Section shall be deemed to
apply to the medical supervision, regulation or control of the
remedial care or treatment of residents in a facility conducted
for those who rely upon treatment by prayer or spiritual means
in accordance with the creed or tenets of any well recognized
church or religious denomination and which is licensed in
accordance with Section 3-803 of the Nursing Home Care Act or
Section 3-803 of the MR/DD Community Care Act.
(Source: P.A. 96-339, eff. 7-1-10.)
 
    Section 95. No acceleration or delay. Where this Act makes
changes in a statute that is represented in this Act by text
that is not yet or no longer in effect (for example, a Section
represented by multiple versions), the use of that text does
not accelerate or delay the taking effect of (i) the changes
made by this Act or (ii) provisions derived from any other
Public Act.
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.

Effective Date: 7/29/2010