95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB5359


 
Introduced , by Rep. Cynthia Soto
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		








  



210 ILCS 85/4.5









    Amends the Hospital Licensing Act. Provides that a hospital located in a county with 3,000,000 or more inhabitants may apply to the Department of Public Health for approval to conduct its operations from more than one location within the county under a single license if the distance between each location to be combined under one license is no more than one mile. Effective immediately.
















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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 Hospital Licensing Act is amended  by 
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changing Section 4.5 as follows:
 



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    (210 ILCS 85/4.5)



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    Sec. 4.5. Hospital with multiple locations; single 
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license. 

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    (a) A hospital located in a county with fewer than 
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3,000,000 inhabitants may
apply to the Department for approval 
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to conduct its operations from more than
one location within 
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the county under a single license.

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    (a-5) A hospital located in a county with 3,000,000 or more 
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inhabitants may apply to the Department for approval to conduct 
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its operations from more than one location within the county 
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under a single license if the distance between each location to 
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be combined under one license is no more than one mile. 
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    (b) The facilities or buildings at those locations must be 
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owned or
operated together by a single corporation or other 
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legal entity serving as the
licensee and must share:


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        (1) a single board of directors with responsibility for 
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    governance,
including financial oversight and the 
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    authority to designate or remove the
chief executive 
 


 






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    officer;


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        (2) a single medical staff accountable to the board of 
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    directors and
governed by a single set of medical staff 
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    bylaws, rules, and regulations with
responsibility for the 
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    quality of the medical services; and


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        (3) a single chief executive officer, accountable to 
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    the board of
directors, with management responsibility.

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    (c) Each hospital building or facility that is located on a 
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site
geographically separate from the campus or premises of 
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another hospital
building or facility operated by the licensee 
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must, at a minimum, individually
comply with the Department's 
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hospital licensing requirements for emergency
services.

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    (d) The hospital shall submit to the Department a 
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comprehensive plan in
relation to the waiver or waivers 
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requested
describing the services and operations of each 
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facility or building and how
common services or operations will 
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be coordinated between the various
locations.  With the 
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exception of items required by subsection (c), the
Department 
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is authorized to waive compliance with the hospital
licensing 
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requirements for specific buildings or facilities, provided 
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that the
hospital has documented which other building or 
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facility under its single
license provides that service or 
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operation, and that doing so would not
endanger the public's 
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health, safety, or welfare.  Nothing in this Section
relieves a 
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hospital from the requirements of the Health Facilities 
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Planning
Act.

 


 






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(Source: P.A. 89-171, eff. 7-19-95.)

 

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    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
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becoming law.