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92_HB1788
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1 AN ACT concerning nursing home care.
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 3-304.1 as follows:
6 (210 ILCS 45/3-304.1)
7 Sec. 3-304.1. Public computer access to information.
8 (a) The Department must make information regarding
9 nursing homes in the State available to the public in
10 electronic form on the World Wide Web, including all of the
11 following information:
12 (1) who regulates nursing homes;
13 (2) information in the possession of the Department
14 that is listed in Sections 3-210 and 3-304;
15 (3) deficiencies and plans of correction;
16 (4) enforcement remedies;
17 (5) penalty letters;
18 (6) designation of penalty monies;
19 (7) the U.S. Department of Health and Human
20 Services' Health Care Financing Administration special
21 projects or federally required inspections;
22 (8) advisory standards;
23 (9) deficiency-free surveys; and
24 (10) enforcement actions and enforcement
25 summaries;.
26 (11) information submitted under Sections 3-103 and
27 3-207, except information concerning the remuneration of
28 personnel licensed, registered, or certified by the
29 Department of Professional Regulation and monthly charges
30 for an individual private resident;
31 (12) records of license and certification
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1 inspections, surveys, and evaluations of a facility;
2 (13) reports of inspections, surveys, and
3 evaluation of resident care;
4 (14) reports concerning a facility prepared
5 pursuant to Titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security
6 Act and subject to the provisions of the Social Security
7 Act;
8 (15) cost and reimbursement reports submitted by a
9 facility under Section 3-208;
10 (16) reports of an audit of a facility;
11 (17) public records concerning costs incurred by,
12 revenues received by, and reimbursement of a facility;
13 and
14 (18) complaints filed against a facility and the
15 complaint investigation reports, after disclosure to the
16 facility as required under Section 3-702 and excluding
17 the complainant's or resident's name.
18 (b) No fee or other charge may be imposed by the
19 Department as a condition of accessing the information.
20 (c) The electronic public access provided through the
21 World Wide Web shall be in addition to any other electronic
22 or print distribution of the information.
23 (d) The information shall be made available as provided
24 in this Section in the shortest practicable time after it is
25 publicly available in any other form.
26 (Source: P.A. 91-290, eff. 1-1-00.)