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Policy and Regulation

Adverse Health Care Event Reporting Law

Ambulance Transport

  • Required Notification of Patients Prior to Non-Emergency Ambulance Transport
    Legislation that became effective on January 1, 2007 requires notification of patients prior to non-emergency transport by ambulance from the hospital to another site. The notice must be either a Physician Certification Statement or another form that alerts patients that they may be responsible for the cost of the ambulance ride.

Facility Requirements

  • Policy on Locked Bathroom Doors in Hospital Patient Rooms
    HB 5764 requires that hospitals have policies and procedures for readily gaining access to a locked bathroom in a patient's room as of January 1, 2011.

Health Professionals Licensure Identification

  • New Requirements for Health Care Professionals to Identify Licensure
    Public Act 96-1340, effective July 27, 2010 requires health care professionals to properly identify their licensure in their offices; on their person; and in any “advertisement” naming the health care professional. The purpose of this law is to clearly inform patients of the qualifications of health care professionals and to protect the public from potentially misleading and deceptive health care advertising.

Hospital Report Card Act (HRCA)

Nursing

  • Nurse Practice Act
    Governor Blagojevich signed the updated Nurse Practice Act into law on Oct. 5, 2007. The new law, due to sunset in 2018, recognizes nurses' larger role in providing health care, and clarifies APN, RN and LPN responsibilities and requirements.
  • Nurse Staffing by Patient Acuity
    In 2007, Governor Blagojevich signed SB867 into law. The legislation was strongly supported by IHA to address hospital staffing based on patient acuity. The Nurse Staffing by Patient Acuity law addresses hospitals' staffing plans based on each hospital's patient acuity model, incorporating recommendations from a nursing care committee comprised of 50% direct care nurses.

Perinatal Issues

  • New Legislation Requires Hospitals to Give SIDS Education; Focuses on Preventing Premature Births
    Public Act 96-1116, effective January 1, 2011, amends the Hospital Licensing Act to require hospitals to provide information and instructional materials regarding sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) that emphasize measures that may reduce the risk of SIDS. Public Act 96-1117 and House Joint Resolution 111 both focus on efforts to decrease premature deliveries.
  • Proposed Perinatal Code Amendments
    IHA has submitted comments to the Department of Public Health on the proposed changes to the Regionalized Perinatal Health Care Code published February 5, 2010.

Pharmacy Practice Act

Sexual Assault Survivors

  • Follow-up Care Vouchers - An Overview
    Over 2 years ago, IHA participated in discussions with the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services, the Illinois Department of Public Health, ISMS, and other stakeholders to develop a system whereby uninsured sexual assault survivors can receive follow-up care that is paid for by the state. Many hospitals already  participate in this program by generating online vouchers at the time of the emergency department visit, for survivors to take to providers of follow-up care.

STDs

  • Partner Therapy for Certain Sexually Transmitted Diseases
    IHA monitored the development of this law in 2009, to assure that hospital pharmacy interests were incorporated, and that provision of expedited partner therapy remained voluntary.

Stroke

  • Emergent Stroke Response
    The Illinois General Assembly in 2009 passed HB 2244, allowing the creation of stroke systems of care in Illinois. The law identifies hospitals capable of providing emergent stroke care (Primary Stroke Centers and Emergent Stroke Ready Hospitals), and directs EMS providers to transport possible acute stroke patients to these hospitals.

IHA is working with the American Heart Association and the Illinois Department of Public Health to create preliminary regulation that will enact the landmark legislation. Following completion of the regulatory process, IDPH will begin designating hospitals as Primary Stroke Centers and Emergent Stroke Ready Hospitals.

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