(210 ILCS 86/30)
Sec. 30. Department reports. The Department of Public Health shall
annually submit
to the General Assembly a report summarizing the quarterly reports by health
service area
and shall publish that report on its website. The Department of Public Health
may issue
quarterly informational bulletins at its discretion, summarizing all or part of
the information
submitted in these quarterly reports. The Department shall publish quality and safety measures on major public health problems, such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes, that have been vetted by the National Quality Forum, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The Department shall also publish
risk-adjusted mortality
rates for each hospital based upon information hospitals have already submitted
to the
Department pursuant to their obligations to report health care information
under other public
health reporting laws and regulations outside of this Act. The published
mortality rates must
comply with the hospital data publication process contained in subsection (c)
of Section 25 of this Act.
(Source: P.A. 99-326, eff. 8-10-15.)
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