Illinois Compiled Statutes 210 Health Facilities and Regulation: Article II - Rights and Responsibilities

Part 1. Resident Rights (Source: P. A. 96-339, Eff. 7-1-10.)

• Illinois Id/dd Community Care Act. - 210 ILCS 47, Section 2-101
  Constitutional and legal rights. No resident shall be deprived of any rights, benefits, or privileges guaranteed by law, the Constitution of the State of Illinois,...
• Illinois Id/dd Community Care Act. - 210 ILCS 47, 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 the...
• Illinois Id/dd Community Care Act. - 210 ILCS 47, Section 2-102
  Financial affairs. A resident shall be permitted to manage his or her own financial affairs unless he or she or his or her guardian or...
• Illinois Id/dd Community Care Act. - 210 ILCS 47, Section 2-103
  Personal property. A resident shall be permitted to retain and use or wear his or her personal property in his or her immediate living quarters,...
• Illinois Id/dd Community Care Act. - 210 ILCS 47, Section 2-104
  Medical treatment; records. (a) A resident shall be permitted to retain the services of his or her own personal physician at his or her own...
• Illinois Id/dd Community Care Act. - 210 ILCS 47, Section 2-104.1
  Transfer of facility ownership after license suspension or revocation. Whenever ownership of a private facility is transferred to another private owner following a final order...
• Illinois Id/dd Community Care Act. - 210 ILCS 47, Section 2-104.2
  Do Not Resuscitate Orders. Every facility licensed under this Act shall establish a policy for the implementation of physician orders limiting resuscitation such as those...
• Illinois Id/dd Community Care Act. - 210 ILCS 47, Section 2-105
  Privacy. A resident shall be permitted respect and privacy in his or her medical and personal care program. Every resident's case discussion, consultation, examination and...
• Illinois Id/dd Community Care Act. - 210 ILCS 47, Section 2-106
  Restraints and confinements. (a) For purposes of this Act: (i) A physical restraint is any manual method or physical or mechanical device, material, or equipment...
• Illinois Id/dd Community Care Act. - 210 ILCS 47, 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 Id/dd Community Care Act. - 210 ILCS 47, 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 Id/dd Community Care Act. - 210 ILCS 47, Section 2-107
  Abuse or neglect; duty to report. An owner, licensee, administrator, employee or agent of a facility shall not abuse or neglect a resident. It is...
• Illinois Id/dd Community Care Act. - 210 ILCS 47, Section 2-108
  Communications; visits; married residents. Every resident shall be permitted unimpeded, private and uncensored communication of his or her choice by mail, public telephone or visitation....
• Illinois Id/dd Community Care Act. - 210 ILCS 47, Section 2-109
  Religion. A resident shall be permitted the free exercise of religion. Upon a resident's request, and if necessary at the resident's expense, the administrator shall...
• Illinois Id/dd Community Care Act. - 210 ILCS 47, Section 2-110
  Access to residents. (a) Any employee or agent of a public agency, any representative of a community legal services program or any other member of...
• Illinois Id/dd Community Care Act. - 210 ILCS 47, Section 2-111
  Discharge. A resident may be discharged from a facility after he or she gives the administrator, a physician, or a nurse of the facility written...
• Illinois Id/dd Community Care Act. - 210 ILCS 47, Section 2-112
  Grievances. A resident shall be permitted to present grievances on behalf of himself or herself or others to the administrator, the DD Facility Advisory Board...
• Illinois Id/dd Community Care Act. - 210 ILCS 47, Section 2-113
  Labor. A resident may refuse to perform labor for a facility. (Source: P.A. 96-339, eff. 7-1-10.)
• Illinois Id/dd Community Care Act. - 210 ILCS 47, 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,...
• Illinois Id/dd Community Care Act. - 210 ILCS 47, Section 2-115
  Right to notification of violations. Residents and their guardians or other resident representatives, if any, shall be notified of any violation of this Act or...

Part 2. Responsibilities (Source: P. A. 96-339, Eff. 7-1-10.)

• Illinois Id/dd Community Care Act. - 210 ILCS 47, Section 2-201
  Residents' funds. To protect the residents' funds, the facility: (1) Shall at the time of admission provide, in order of priority, each resident, or the...
• Illinois Id/dd Community Care Act. - 210 ILCS 47, Section 2-201.5
  Screening prior to admission. (a) All persons age 18 or older seeking admission to a facility must be screened to determine the need for facility...
• Illinois Id/dd Community Care Act. - 210 ILCS 47, 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 Id/dd Community Care Act. - 210 ILCS 47, Section 2-202
  Contract required. (a) Before a person is admitted to a facility, or at the expiration of the period of previous contract, or when the source...
• Illinois Id/dd Community Care Act. - 210 ILCS 47, Section 2-203
  Residents' advisory council. Each facility shall establish a residents' advisory council. The administrator shall designate a member of the facility staff to coordinate the establishment...
• Illinois Id/dd Community Care Act. - 210 ILCS 47, Section 2-204
  DD Facility Advisory Board. The Director shall appoint a DD Facility Advisory Board to consult with the Department and the residents' advisory councils created under...
• Illinois Id/dd Community Care Act. - 210 ILCS 47, Section 2-205
  Disclosure of information to public. The following information is subject to disclosure to the public from the Department or the Department of Healthcare and Family...
• Illinois Id/dd Community Care Act. - 210 ILCS 47, Section 2-206
  Confidentiality of records. (a) The Department shall respect the confidentiality of a resident's record and shall not divulge or disclose the contents of a record...
• Illinois Id/dd Community Care Act. - 210 ILCS 47, Section 2-207
  Directories for public health regions; information concerning facility costs and policies. (a) Each year the Department shall publish a Directory for each public health region...
• Illinois Id/dd Community Care Act. - 210 ILCS 47, Section 2-208
  Notice of imminent death, unusual incident, abuse, or neglect. (a) A facility shall immediately notify the identified resident's next of kin, guardian, resident's representative, and...
• Illinois Id/dd Community Care Act. - 210 ILCS 47, Section 2-209
  Number of residents. A facility shall admit only that number of residents for which it is licensed. (Source: P.A. 96-339, eff. 7-1-10.)
• Illinois Id/dd Community Care Act. - 210 ILCS 47, Section 2-210
  Policies and procedures. A facility shall establish written policies and procedures to implement the responsibilities and rights provided in this Article. The policies shall include...
• Illinois Id/dd Community Care Act. - 210 ILCS 47, Section 2-211
  Explanation of rights. Each resident and resident's guardian or other person acting for the resident shall be given a written explanation, prepared by the Office...
• Illinois Id/dd Community Care Act. - 210 ILCS 47, Section 2-212
  Staff familiarity with rights and responsibilities. The facility shall ensure that its staff is familiar with and observes the rights and responsibilities enumerated in this...
• Illinois Id/dd Community Care Act. - 210 ILCS 47, 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 Id/dd Community Care Act. - 210 ILCS 47, 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 Id/dd Community Care Act. - 210 ILCS 47, Section 2-216
  Notification of identified offenders. If identified offenders are residents of the licensed facility, the licensed facility shall notify every resident or resident's guardian in writing...
• Illinois Id/dd Community Care Act. - 210 ILCS 47, Section 2-217
  Notification of violations. When the Department issues any notice pursuant to Section 3-119, 3-119.1, 3-301, 3-303, 3-307, or 3-702 of this Act or a notice...
• Illinois Id/dd Community Care Act. - 210 ILCS 47, Section 2-218
  Minimum staffing in long-term care facilities for under age 22 residents. Facility staffing shall be based on all the needs of the residents and comply...

Last modified: February 18, 2015