(410 ILCS 70/2) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 87-2)
Sec. 2. Hospital requirements. Every hospital required to be licensed by the Department pursuant to the Hospital Licensing Act, approved July 1, 1953, as now or hereafter amended, which provides general medical and surgical hospital services shall provide either (i) transfer services or (ii) hospital emergency services and forensic services, in accordance with rules and regulations adopted by the Department, to all sexual assault survivors who apply for either (i) transfer services or (ii) hospital emergency services and forensic services in relation to injuries or trauma resulting from the sexual assault.
In addition, every such hospital, regardless of whether or not a request is made for reimbursement, shall submit to the Department a plan to provide either (i) transfer services or (ii) hospital emergency services and forensic services to sexual assault survivors. Such plan shall be submitted within 60 days after receipt of the Department's request for this plan, to the Department for approval prior to such plan becoming effective. The Department shall approve such plan for either (i) transfer services or (ii) hospital emergency services and forensic services to sexual assault survivors if it finds that the implementation of the proposed plan would provide adequate (i) transfer services or (ii) hospital emergency services and forensic services for sexual assault survivors and provide sufficient protections from the risk of pregnancy to sexual assault survivors.
The Department shall periodically conduct on site reviews of such approved plans with hospital personnel to insure that the established procedures are being followed.
On January 1, 2007, and each January 1 thereafter, the Department shall submit a report to the General Assembly containing information on the hospitals in this State that have submitted a plan to provide either (i) transfer services or (ii) hospital emergency services and forensic services to sexual assault survivors. The Department shall post on its Internet website the report required in this Section. The report shall include all of the following:
(1) A list of all hospitals that have submitted a
plan.
(2) A list of hospitals whose plans have been found
by the Department to be in compliance with this Act.
(3) A list of hospitals that have failed to submit an
acceptable Plan of Correction within the time required by Section 2.1 of this Act.
(4) A list of hospitals at which the periodic site
review required by this Act has been conducted. When a hospital listed as noncompliant under item (3) of this Section submits and implements the required Plan of Correction, the Department shall immediately update the report on its Internet website to reflect that hospital's compliance.
(Source: P.A. 94-762, eff. 5-12-06; 95-432, eff. 1-1-08.)
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