Illinois Compiled Statutes 210 Health Facilities and Regulation: Article II - Rights And Responsibilities
Part 1. Resident Rights
- Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. - 210 ILCS 45, Section 2-101
No resident shall be deprived of any rights, benefits, or privileges guaranteed by law, the Constitution of the State of Illinois, or the Constitution...
- Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. - 210 ILCS 45, Section 2-101.1
Spousal impoverishment. All new residents and their spouses shall be informed on admittance of their spousal impoverishment rights as defined at Section 5-4 of...
- Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. - 210 ILCS 45, Section 2-102
A resident shall be permitted to manage his own financial affairs unless he or his guardian or if the resident is a minor, his...
- Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. - 210 ILCS 45, Section 2-103
A resident shall be permitted to retain and use or wear his personal property in his immediate living quarters, unless deemed medically inappropriate by...
- Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. - 210 ILCS 45, Section 2-104
(a) A resident shall be permitted to retain the services of his own personal physician at his own expense or under an individual or group...
- Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. - 210 ILCS 45, Section 2-104.1
Whenever ownership of a private facility is transferred to another private owner following a final order for a suspension or revocation of the facility's...
- Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. - 210 ILCS 45, Section 2-104.2
Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders and Department of Public Health Uniform DNR/POLST form. (a) Every facility licensed under this Act shall establish a policy for the implementation of...
- Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. - 210 ILCS 45, Section 2-104.3
Serious mental illness; rescreening. (a) All persons admitted to a nursing home facility with a diagnosis of serious mental illness who remain in the facility...
- Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. - 210 ILCS 45, Section 2-105
A resident shall be permitted respect and privacy in his medical and personal care program. Every resident's case discussion, consultation, examination and treatment shall...
- Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. - 210 ILCS 45, Section 2-106
(a) For purposes of this Act, (i) a physical restraint is any manual method or physical or mechanical device, material, or equipment attached or adjacent...
- Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. - 210 ILCS 45, Section 2-106.1
Drug treatment. (a) A resident shall not be given unnecessary drugs. An unnecessary drug is any drug used in an excessive dose, including in duplicative...
- Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. - 210 ILCS 45, Section 2-106a
Resident identification wristlet. No identification wristlets shall be employed except as ordered by a physician who documents the need for such mandatory identification in the...
- Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. - 210 ILCS 45, Section 2-107
An owner, licensee, administrator, employee or agent of a facility shall not abuse or neglect a resident. It is the duty of any facility...
- Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. - 210 ILCS 45, Section 2-108
Every resident shall be permitted unimpeded, private and uncensored communication of his choice by mail, public telephone or visitation. (a) The administrator shall ensure...
- Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. - 210 ILCS 45, Section 2-109
A resident shall be permitted the free exercise of religion. Upon a resident's request, and if necessary at his expense, the administrator shall make...
- Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. - 210 ILCS 45, Section 2-110
(a) Any employee or agent of a public agency, any representative of a community legal services program or any other member of the general public...
- Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. - 210 ILCS 45, Section 2-111
A resident may be discharged from a facility after he gives the administrator, a physician, or a nurse of the facility written notice of...
- Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. - 210 ILCS 45, Section 2-112
A resident shall be permitted to present grievances on behalf of himself or others to the administrator, the Long-Term Care Facility Advisory Board, the...
- Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. - 210 ILCS 45, Section 2-113
A resident may refuse to perform labor for a facility. (Source: P.A. 81-223.)
- Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. - 210 ILCS 45, Section 2-114
Unlawful discrimination. No resident shall be subjected to unlawful discrimination as defined in Section 1-103 of the Illinois Human Rights Act by any owner, licensee,...
Part 2. Responsibilities
- Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. - 210 ILCS 45, Section 2-201
To protect the residents' funds, the facility: (1) Shall at the time of admission provide, in order of priority, each resident, or the resident's guardian,...
- Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. - 210 ILCS 45, Section 2-201.5
Screening prior to admission. (a) All persons age 18 or older seeking admission to a nursing facility must be screened to determine the need for...
- Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. - 210 ILCS 45, Section 2-201.6
Criminal History Report. (a) The Department of State Police shall prepare a Criminal History Report when it receives information, through the criminal history background check...
- Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. - 210 ILCS 45, Section 2-201.7
Expanded criminal history background check pilot program. (a) The purpose of this Section is to establish a pilot program based in Cook and Will counties...
- Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. - 210 ILCS 45, Section 2-202
(a) Before a person is admitted to a facility, or at the expiration of the period of previous contract, or when the source of payment...
- Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. - 210 ILCS 45, Section 2-203
Each facility shall establish a residents' advisory council. The administrator shall designate a member of the facility staff to coordinate the establishment of, and...
- Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. - 210 ILCS 45, Section 2-204
The Director shall appoint a Long-Term Care Facility Advisory Board to consult with the Department and the residents' advisory councils created under Section 2-203. (a)...
- Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. - 210 ILCS 45, Section 2-205
The following information is subject to disclosure to the public from the Department or the Department of Healthcare and Family Services: (1) Information submitted under...
- Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. - 210 ILCS 45, Section 2-206
(a) The Department shall respect the confidentiality of a resident's record and shall not divulge or disclose the contents of a record in a...
- Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. - 210 ILCS 45, Section 2-207
(a) Each year the Department shall publish a Directory for each public health region listing facilities to be made available to the public and...
- Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. - 210 ILCS 45, Section 2-208
A facility shall immediately notify the resident's next of kin, representative and physician of the resident's death or when the resident's death appears to...
- Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. - 210 ILCS 45, Section 2-209
A facility shall admit only that number of residents for which it is licensed. (Source: P.A. 81-223.)
- Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. - 210 ILCS 45, Section 2-210
A facility shall establish written policies and procedures to implement the responsibilities and rights provided in this Article. The policies shall include the procedure...
- Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. - 210 ILCS 45, Section 2-211
Each resident and resident's guardian or other person acting for the resident shall be given a written explanation, prepared by the Office of the State...
- Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. - 210 ILCS 45, Section 2-212
The facility shall ensure that its staff is familiar with and observes the rights and responsibilities enumerated in this Article. (Source: P.A. 81-223.)
- Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. - 210 ILCS 45, Section 2-213
Vaccinations. (a) A facility shall annually administer or arrange for administration of a vaccination against influenza to each resident, in accordance with the recommendations of...
- Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. - 210 ILCS 45, Section 2-214
Consumer Choice Information Reports. (a) Every facility shall complete a Consumer Choice Information Report and shall file it with the Office of State Long Term...
- Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. - 210 ILCS 45, Section 2-215
Conflicts with the Department of Veterans Affairs Act. If there is a conflict between the provisions of this Act and the provisions of the...
- Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. - 210 ILCS 45, Section 2-216
Notification of identified offenders. Every licensed facility shall provide to every prospective and current resident and resident's guardian, and to every facility employee, a written...
- Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. - 210 ILCS 45, Section 2-217
Order for transportation of resident by ambulance. If a facility orders transportation of a resident of the facility by ambulance, the facility must maintain a...
Last modified: February 18, 2015