96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
SB2935


 
Introduced 1/28/2010, by Sen. Jacqueline Y. Collins
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		





 








210 ILCS 45/3-202
  from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4153-202








     Amends the Nursing Home Care Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning facility staffing.
  















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    AN ACT concerning regulation.
  
 
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    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
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represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
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    Section 5. The Nursing Home Care Act is amended  by changing 
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Section 3-202 as follows:
 



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    (210 ILCS 45/3-202)  (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4153-202)



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    Sec. 3-202. The Department shall prescribe minimum 
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standards for facilities. These standards shall regulate:

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        (1) Location and construction of the facility, 
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    including plumbing, heating,
lighting, ventilation, and 
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    other physical conditions which shall ensure the
health, 
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    safety, and comfort of residents and their protection from 
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    fire hazard;

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        (2) Number and qualifications of all personnel, 
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    including management and
nursing personnel, having 
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    responsibility for any part of the care given
to residents; 
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    specifically, the Department shall establish staffing 
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    ratios ratios
for facilities which shall specify the number 
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    of staff hours per resident
of care that are needed for 
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    professional nursing care for various types
of facilities 
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    or areas within facilities;

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        (3) All sanitary conditions within the facility and its 
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    surroundings,
including water supply, sewage disposal, 
 


 






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    food handling, and general hygiene,
which shall ensure the 
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    health and comfort of residents;

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        (4) Diet related to the needs of each resident based on 
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    good nutritional
practice and on recommendations which may 
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    be made by the physicians attending
the resident;

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        (5) Equipment essential to the health and welfare of 
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    the residents;

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        (6) A program of habilitation and rehabilitation for 
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    those residents who
would benefit from such programs;

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        (7) A program for adequate maintenance of physical 
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    plant and equipment;

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        (8) Adequate accommodations, staff and services for 
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    the number and
types of residents for whom the facility is 
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    licensed to care, including
standards for temperature and 
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    relative humidity within comfort zones determined
by the 
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    Department based upon a combination of air temperature, 
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    relative
humidity and air movement.  Such standards shall 
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    also require facility plans
that provide for health and 
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    comfort of residents at medical risk as determined
by the 
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    attending physician whenever the temperature and relative 
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    humidity
are outside such comfort zones established by the 
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    Department. The standards must include a requirement that 
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    areas of a nursing home used by residents of the nursing 
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    home be air conditioned and heated by means of operable 
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    air-conditioning and heating equipment. The areas subject 
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    to this air-conditioning and heating requirement include, 
 


 






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    without limitation, bedrooms or common areas such as 
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    sitting rooms, activity rooms, living rooms, community 
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    rooms, and dining rooms. No later than July 1, 2008, the 
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    Department shall submit a report to the General Assembly 
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    concerning the impact of the changes made by this 
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    amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly;


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        (9) Development of evacuation and other appropriate 
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    safety plans for
use during weather, health, fire, physical 
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    plant, environmental and
national defense emergencies; and

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        (10) Maintenance of minimum financial or other 
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    resources necessary to
meet the standards established 
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    under this Section, and to operate and
conduct the facility 
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    in accordance with this Act.

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(Source: P.A. 95-31, eff. 8-9-07.)