Illinois Compiled Statutes 210 Health Facilities and Regulation: Article -

• Illinois Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 55, Section 1
  This Act shall be known and may be cited as the Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. (Source: P.A. 94-379, eff.
• Illinois Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 55, Section 1.01
  It is declared to be the public policy that the State has a legitimate interest in assuring that all home health services, home nursing services,...
• Illinois Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 55, Section 2
  As used in this Act, unless the context requires otherwise, the terms defined in the following Sections preceding Section 3 have the meanings ascribed to...
• Illinois Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 55, Section 2.01
  "Department" means the Department of Public Health of the State of Illinois. (Source: P.A. 80-804.)
• Illinois Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 55, Section 2.02
  "Director" means the Director of Public Health of the State of Illinois, or his designee. (Source: P.A. 86-130.)
• Illinois Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 55, Section 2.03
  "Person" means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association, or any other legal entity. (Source: P.A. 80-804.)
• Illinois Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 55, Section 2.03a
  "Agency" means a home health agency, home nursing agency, or home services agency unless specifically stated otherwise. (Source: P.A. 94-379, eff. 1-1-06.)
• Illinois Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 55, Section 2.04
  "Home Health Agency" means a public agency or private organization that provides skilled nursing services and at least one other home health service as...
• Illinois Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 55, Section 2.05
  "Home health services" means services provided to a person at his residence according to a plan of treatment for illness or infirmity prescribed by a...
• Illinois Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 55, Section 2.08
  "Home services agency" means an agency that provides services directly, or acts as a placement agency, for the purpose of placing individuals as workers providing...
• Illinois Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 55, Section 2.09
  "Home services" or "in-home services" means assistance with activities of daily living, housekeeping, personal laundry, and companionship provided to an individual in his or her...
• Illinois Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 55, Section 2.10
  "Home services worker" or "in-home services worker" means an individual who provides home services to a consumer in the consumer's personal residence. (Source: P.A. 94-379,...
• Illinois Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 55, Section 2.11
  "Home nursing agency" means an agency that provides services directly, or acts as a placement agency, in order to deliver skilled nursing and home health...
• Illinois Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 55, Section 2.12
  "Placement agency" means any person engaged for gain or profit in the business of securing or attempting to secure (i) work for hire for persons...
• Illinois Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 55, Section 3
  No person shall open, manage, conduct or maintain a home health agency, or advertise as such, without a license issued by the Department. (Source:...
• Illinois Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 55, Section 3.3
  Home services agency; license required. On and after September 1, 2008, no person shall open, manage, conduct, or maintain a home services agency, or advertise...
• Illinois Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 55, Section 3.7
  Home nursing agency; license required. On and after September 1, 2008, no person shall open, manage, conduct, or maintain a home nursing agency, or advertise...
• Illinois Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 55, Section 4
  Types of licenses. (a) If an applicant for licensure has not been previously licensed, or if the home health agency, home services agency, or home...
• Illinois Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 55, Section 5
  (a) Each application for a home health agency provisional license as provided in Section 4 shall contain the following information: (1) name, address and...
• Illinois Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 55, Section 6
  The Department shall, before March 1, 1978, promulgate standards for home health agencies operated in this State. The Department shall issue such rules and...
• Illinois Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 55, Section 6.3
  Home services agencies; standards; fees. (a) Before January 1, 2008, the Department shall adopt standards for the licensure and operation of home services agencies operated...
• Illinois Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 55, Section 6.4
  Oversight and direction of skilled home care services. A physician licensed in another state may oversee or direct the delivery of skilled home care services...
• Illinois Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 55, Section 6.5
  Vaccinations. (a) A home health agency shall annually administer or arrange for administration of a vaccination against influenza to each client, in accordance with the...
• Illinois Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 55, Section 6.7
  Home nursing agencies; standards; fees. (a) Before January 1, 2008, the Department shall adopt standards for the licensure and operation of home nursing agencies operated...
• Illinois Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 55, Section 7
  (a) The Director shall appoint a Home Health and Home Services Advisory Committee composed of 15 persons to advise and consult with the Director in...
• Illinois Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 55, Section 8
  An application for a license may be denied for any of the following reasons: (a) failure to meet the minimum standards prescribed by the Department...
• Illinois Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 55, Section 9
  A license may be suspended, revoked, or a renewal thereof denied for any of the following reasons: (a) a violation of any provision of...
• Illinois Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 55, Section 9.01
  The Department may conduct any such investigations and inspections as it deems necessary to assess compliance with this Act and the rules and regulations promulgated...
• Illinois Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 55, Section 9.02
  When the Department determines that an agency is in violation of this Act or any rule promulgated hereunder, a notice of violation shall be served...
• Illinois Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 55, Section 9.03
  (a) Each agency served with a notice of violation under Section 9.02 of this Act shall file with the Department a written plan of correction...
• Illinois Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 55, Section 9.04
  (a) The licensee of an agency operating in violation of this Act or any rule adopted hereunder may be subject to the penalties or fines...
• Illinois Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 55, Section 10
  (a) Before denying an application, refusing to renew a license, suspending a license, revoking a license, or levying a fine, the Department shall notify...
• Illinois Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 55, Section 10.01
  All fines shall be paid to the Department within 10 days of the notice of assessment or, if the fine is contested under Section 10...
• Illinois Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 55, Section 10.05
  Home Care Services Agency Licensure Fund. The Department shall deposit all fees and fines collected in relation to the licensure of home services agencies and...
• Illinois Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 55, Section 11
  (a) Each licensee shall file annually, or more often as the Director shall by rule prescribe, an attested financial statement. An audited financial statement may...
• Illinois Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 55, Section 12
  Whenever the Department refuses to grant, or revokes or suspends a license to open, conduct, operate, or maintain an agency, the applicant or licensee may...
• Illinois Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 55, Section 13
  This Act does not apply to any home health agency conducted by and for the adherents of any well recognized church or religious denomination...
• Illinois Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 55, Section 14
  The operation or maintenance of an agency in violation of this Act or of the Rules and Regulations promulgated by the Department is declared a...

Last modified: February 18, 2015