[ Search ] [ Legislation ]
[ Home ] [ Back ] [ Bottom ]
91_HB3468
LRB9112107ACcd
1 AN ACT to amend the Nursing Home Care Act.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Nursing Home Care Act is amended by
5 changing Section 3-202 as follows:
6 (210 ILCS 45/3-202) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4153-202)
7 Sec. 3-202. The Department shall prescribe minimum
8 standards for facilities. These standards shall regulate:
9 (1) Location and construction of the facility, including
10 plumbing, heating, lighting, ventilation, and other physical
11 conditions which shall ensure the health, safety, and comfort
12 of residents and their protection from fire hazard;
13 (2) Number and qualifications of all personnel,
14 including management and nursing personnel, having
15 responsibility for any part of the care given to residents;
16 specifically, the Department shall establish staffing ratios
17 for facilities which shall specify the number of staff hours
18 per resident of care that are needed for professional nursing
19 care for various types of facilities or areas within
20 facilities;
21 (3) All sanitary conditions within the facility and its
22 surroundings, including water supply, sewage disposal, food
23 handling, and general hygiene, which shall ensure the health
24 and comfort of residents;
25 (4) Diet related to the needs of each resident based on
26 good nutritional practice and on recommendations which may be
27 made by the physicians attending the resident;
28 (5) Equipment essential to the health and welfare of the
29 residents;
30 (6) A program of habilitation and rehabilitation for
31 those residents who would benefit from such programs;
-2- LRB9112107ACcd
1 (7) A program for adequate maintenance of physical plant
2 and equipment;
3 (8) Adequate accommodations, staff and services for the
4 number and types of residents for whom the facility is
5 licensed to care, including standards for temperature and
6 relative humidity within comfort zones determined by the
7 Department based upon a combination of air temperature,
8 relative humidity and air movement. Such standards shall
9 also require facility plans that provide for health and
10 comfort of residents at medical risk as determined by the
11 attending physician whenever the temperature and relative
12 humidity are outside such comfort zones established by the
13 Department; .
14 (9) Development of evacuation and other appropriate
15 safety plans for use during weather, health, fire, physical
16 plant, environmental and national defense emergencies; and
17 (10) Maintenance of minimum financial or other resources
18 necessary to meet the standards established under this
19 Section, and to operate and conduct the facility in
20 accordance with this Act; and.
21 (11) Procedures that prevent a resident from eloping by
22 leaving the building without supervision, including
23 procedures that will alert the facility staff if there is an
24 elopement, which shall include use of equipment on all
25 exterior doors that automatically signals a patient
26 elopement. Any exterior door that is supervised during
27 certain periods of the day may have a device that disconnects
28 the signal on a part-time basis when there is direct
29 supervision of that door. If there is constant 24-hour a day
30 supervision for exterior doors that prevents elopement by a
31 patient, automatic signaling equipment is not required.
32 (Source: P.A. 83-1530.)