(210 ILCS 70/1) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 6151)

Sec. 1. No hospital, physician, dentist or other provider of professional health care licensed under the laws of this State may refuse to provide needed emergency treatment to any person whose life would be threatened in the absence of such treatment, because of that person's inability to pay therefor, nor because of the source of any payment promised therefor.

(Source: P.A. 83-723.)