(210 ILCS 50/3.95)
    Sec. 3.95. Level I Trauma Center minimum standards. The Department shall establish, through rules adopted pursuant to this Act, standards for Level I Trauma Centers which shall include, but need not be limited to:
        (a) the designation by the trauma center of a Trauma
    
Center Medical Director and specification of his qualifications;
        (b) the types of surgical services the trauma center
    
must have available for trauma patients, including but not limited to a twenty-four hour in-house surgeon with operating privileges and ancillary staff necessary for immediate surgical intervention;
        (c) the types of nonsurgical services the trauma
    
center must have available for trauma patients;
        (d) the numbers and qualifications of emergency
    
medical personnel;
        (e) the types of equipment that must be available to
    
trauma patients;
        (f) requiring the trauma center to be affiliated with
    
an EMS System;
        (g) requiring the trauma center to have a
    
communications system that is fully integrated with all Level II Trauma Centers, Level III Trauma Centers, Acute Injury Stabilization Centers, and EMS Systems with which it is affiliated;
        (h) the types of data the trauma center must collect
    
and submit to the Department relating to the trauma services it provides. Such data may include information on post-trauma care directly related to the initial traumatic injury provided to trauma patients until their discharge from the facility and information on discharge plans;
        (i) requiring the trauma center to have helicopter
    
landing capabilities approved by appropriate State and federal authorities, if the trauma center is located within a municipality having a population of less than two million people; and
        (j) requiring written agreements with Level II Trauma
    
Centers, Level III Trauma Centers, and Acute Injury Stabilization Centers in the EMS Regions it serves, executed within a reasonable time designated by the Department.
(Source: P.A. 103-1013, eff. 8-9-24.)