Illinois Compiled Statutes 210 Health Facilities and Regulation: Article -

• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 1
  This Act may be cited as the Hospital Licensing Act. (Source: Laws 1953, p. 811.)
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 2
  Purpose; findings. (a) The purpose of this Act is to provide for the better protection of the public health through the development, establishment, and...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 3
  As used in this Act: (A) "Hospital" means any institution, place, building, buildings on a campus, or agency, public or private, whether organized for profit...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 4
  No person shall establish a hospital without first obtaining a permit from the Department and no person shall open, conduct, operate, or maintain a...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 4.5
  Hospital with multiple locations; single license. (a) A hospital located in a county with fewer than 3,000,000 inhabitants may apply to the Department for...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 4.6
  Additional licensing requirements. (a) Notwithstanding any other law or rule to the contrary, the Department may license as a hospital a building that (i) is...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 4.7
  Additional licensing requirements. (a) A hospital located in a county with fewer than 325,000 inhabitants may apply to the Department for approval to conduct its...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 5
  (a) An application for a permit to establish a hospital shall be made to the Department upon forms provided by it. This application shall contain...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 6
  (a) Upon receipt of an application for a permit to establish a hospital the Director shall issue a permit if he finds (1) that the...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 6.01
  Domestic violence. A hospital licensed under this Act must comply with the standards relating to domestic violence established by the Department. In establishing these...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 6.05
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 89-507, eff. 7-1-97. Repealed by P.A. 92-790, eff. 8-6-02.)
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 6.06
  The Department shall prescribe, by regulation, standards for hospitals to meet in order to assure proper identification of newborn infants. Such regulations shall include...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 6.07
  The Department shall by regulation require the availability and proper use of hypothermic thermometers or electronic thermometers capable of aiding in the diagnosis of...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 6.08
  (a) Every hospital shall provide notification as required in this Section to police officers, firefighters, emergency medical technicians, private emergency medical services providers, and ambulance...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 6.09
  (a) In order to facilitate the orderly transition of aged and disabled patients from hospitals to post-hospital care, whenever a patient who qualifies for the...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 6.09a
  Report of Death. Every hospital shall promptly report the death of a person readily known to be, without an investigation by the hospital, a resident...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 6.10
  The Department shall adopt rules requiring hospitals licensed under this Act to offer testing for infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to patients upon...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 6.11
  In licensing any hospital which provides for the diagnosis, care or treatment for persons suffering from mental or emotional disorders or for intellectually disabled persons,...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 6.12
  The provisions of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act are hereby expressly adopted and shall apply to all administrative rules and procedures of the Department...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 6.13
  Any hospital licensed under this Act may provide a program or service for the temporary custodial care of mildly ill children who, because of...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 6.14
  Resident and intern duty hour requirements. Hospitals licensed under this Act shall comply with the duty hour requirements for residents and interns established by...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 6.14a
  Public disclosure of information. The following information is subject to disclosure to the public from the Department: (1) Information submitted under Section 5 of this...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 6.14b
  Confidentiality of patient records. (a) The Department shall respect the confidentiality of a patient's record and shall not divulge or disclose the contents of...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 6.14c
  Posting of information. Every hospital shall conspicuously post for display in an area of its offices accessible to patients, employees, and visitors the following:...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 6.14d
  Materials available for public inspection. A hospital shall retain for 5 years the following for public inspection: (1) a complete copy of every final...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 6.14e
  Storage and transfer of patient records. If a facility closes due to insolvency or for any other reason, the facility must notify the Department...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 6.14f
  Reports to the trauma registry; certain accidents involving persons under the age of 18 years. A trauma center that treats any person under the age...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 6.15
  Abduction of infant patient. Every hospital, as a condition of licensure under this Act, shall demonstrate to the Department that the hospital has adopted...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 6.16
  Agreement with designated organ procurement agency. Each hospital licensed under this Act shall have an agreement with its federally designated organ procurement agency providing for...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 6.17
  Protection of and confidential access to medical records and information. (a) Every hospital licensed under this Act shall develop a medical record for each...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 6.18
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 90-710, eff. 8-7-98. Repealed by P.A. 92-790, eff. 8-6-02.)
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 6.19
  Do-not-resuscitate orders and Department of Public Health Uniform DNR/POLST form. Every facility licensed under this Act shall establish a policy for the implementation of practitioner...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 6.20
  Use of restraints. Each hospital licensed under this Act must have a written policy to address the use of restraints and seclusion in the...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 6.21
  Umbilical cord blood donation. (a) All licensed hospitals shall offer a pregnant patient the option to donate, to a publicly accessible certified cord blood bank,...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 6.22
  Arrangement for transportation of patient by ambulance. (a) In this Section: "Ambulance service provider" means a Vehicle Service Provider as defined in the Emergency Medical...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 6.23
  Prevention and control of Multidrug-Resistant Organisms. Each hospital shall develop and implement comprehensive interventions to prevent and control multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs), including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 6.24
  Time of death; patient's religious beliefs. Every hospital must adopt policies and procedures to allow health care professionals, in documenting a patient's time of death...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 6.25
  Safe patient handling policy. (a) In this Section: "Health care worker" means an individual providing direct patient care services who may be required to lift,...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 6.26
  Immunization against influenza virus and pneumococcal disease. (a) Every hospital shall adopt an influenza and pneumococcal immunization policy that includes, but need not be limited...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 7
  (a) The Director after notice and opportunity for hearing to the applicant or licensee may deny, suspend, or revoke a permit to establish a hospital...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 7.5
  Fire Safety Evaluation System. Upon request by a hospital, the Department, if applicable, must evaluate or allow for an evaluation of compliance with the...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 8
  Facility plan review; fees. (a) Before commencing construction of new facilities or specified types of alteration or additions to an existing hospital involving major construction,...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 8.5
  Waiver or alternative compliance. Upon application by a hospital, the Department may grant or renew a waiver or alternative compliance methodology with a rule...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 9
  Inspections and investigations. The Department shall make or cause to be made such inspections and investigations as it deems necessary, except that, subject to appropriation,...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 9.1
  The Department shall regularly inspect each State mental health and developmental disabilities institution under the jurisdiction of the Department of Human Services to ascertain...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 9.2
  Disclosure. Prior to conducting a survey of a hospital operating under an approved waiver, equivalency, or other approval, a surveyor must be made aware...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 9.3
  Informal dispute resolution. The Department must offer an opportunity for informal dispute resolution concerning Department rules and standards before the advisory committee under subsection...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 9.4
  Findings, conclusions, and citations. The Department must consider any factual information offered by the hospital during the survey, inspection, or investigation, at daily status...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 9.5
  Reviewer quality improvement. The Department must implement a reviewer performance improvement program for hospital survey, inspection, and investigation staff. The Department must also, on...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 9.6
  Patient protection from abuse. (a) No administrator, agent, or employee of a hospital or a member of its medical staff may abuse a patient in...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 10
  Board creation; Department rules. (a) The Governor shall appoint a Hospital Licensing Board composed of 14 persons, which shall advise and consult with the Director...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 10.1
  In connection with any application for a license or a renewal thereof, the Department may request such information about the applicant's internship or residency...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 10.2
  Because the candid and conscientious evaluation of clinical practices is essential to the provision of adequate hospital care, it is the policy of this...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 10.3
  No hospital shall allow any person to take part as a student in a clinical training program of that hospital which is designed, in...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 10.4
  Medical staff privileges. (a) Any hospital licensed under this Act or any hospital organized under the University of Illinois Hospital Act shall, prior to the...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 10.6
  Hospital merger; medical staff bylaws. When one or more hospitals combine or merge in any manner that does not require any of the parties...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 10.7
  Clinical privileges; advanced practice nurses. All hospitals licensed under this Act shall comply with the following requirements: (1) No hospital policy, rule, regulation, or practice...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 10.8
  Requirements for employment of physicians. (a) Physician employment by hospitals and hospital affiliates. Employing entities may employ physicians to practice medicine in all of...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 10.9
  Nurse mandated overtime prohibited. (a) Definitions. As used in this Section: "Mandated overtime" means work that is required by the hospital in excess of an...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 10.10
  Nurse Staffing by Patient Acuity. (a) Findings. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) The State of Illinois has a substantial interest...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 10.11
  Clinical privileges; physician assistants. No hospital licensed under this Act shall adopt any policy, rule, regulation, or practice inconsistent with the provision of adequate supervision...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 11
  No hospital, nor any person connected with any hospital, shall place children for adoption or for care in foster family homes, or shall place...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 11.1
  No hospital may refuse necessary treatment to a pregnant woman in active labor whose life or safety would be threatened in the absence of...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 11.2
  (a) Each hospital licensed under this Act shall allow a recipient of blood to designate a donor of his choice for the purpose of...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 11.3
  No hospital shall require any patient or any member of the patient's family to write or to sign any document during those times when...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 11.4
  Disposition of fetus. A hospital having custody of a fetus following a spontaneous fetal demise occurring after a gestation period of less than 20 completed...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 11.5
  Uniform standards of obstetrical care regardless of ability to pay. (a) No hospital may promulgate policies or implement practices that determine differing standards of obstetrical...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 11.6
  Policy and procedure for patient bathroom door locks. Hospitals shall have policies and procedures for readily gaining access to a locked bathroom in a patient's...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 11.7
  Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Education. (a) A hospital shall provide, free of charge, information and instructional materials regarding sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), explaining...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 12
  The Department shall prepare an annual report of its activities and operations under this Act. (Source: Laws 1953, p. 811.)
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 13
  Whenever the Department refuses to grant, or revokes or suspends a permit to establish a hospital, or a license to open, conduct, operate, or...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 14
  Any person establishing a hospital without a permit issued pursuant to this Act, or any person opening, conducting, operating or maintaining any hospital without...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 14.5
  Hospital Licensure Fund. (a) There is created in the State treasury the Hospital Licensure Fund. The Fund is created for the purpose of providing funding...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 15
  Notwithstanding the existence or pursuit of any other remedy, the Director may, in the manner provided by law, upon the advice of the Attorney...
• Illinois Hospital Licensing Act. - 210 ILCS 85, Section 16
  If any provision of this Act or the application thereof to any person or circumstance shall be held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect...

Last modified: February 18, 2015