110 ILCS 330/ University of Illinois Hospital Act.
(110 ILCS 330/0.01) (from Ch. 23, par. 1370)
Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the University of Illinois Hospital Act.
(Source: P.A. 86‑1324.) |
(110 ILCS 330/1) (from Ch. 23, par. 1371)
Sec. 1. "University" means The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. "University of Illinois Hospital" means any hospital, institute, clinic, outpatient department or office owned or leased by the University at which a University health care program is conducted. "University health care program" means a patient diagnostic, treatment or care program, service or activity conducted by the University through its personnel it assigns to such programs in furtherance of the University's teaching, research and public service functions. The health professional colleges of the University of Illinois may be operated in conjunction with the University of Illinois Hospital or any University health care program to such extent as may be deemed practicable.
(Source: P.A. 81‑573.) |
(110 ILCS 330/2) (from Ch. 23, par. 1372)
Sec. 2. The general management, control and operation of the University of Illinois Hospital shall be in the University.
(Source: P. A. 76‑939.) |
(110 ILCS 330/3) (from Ch. 23, par. 1373)
Sec. 3. The University may provide for a managing officer for the University of Illinois Hospital and prescribe his duties and compensation.
(Source: P. A. 76‑939.) |
(110 ILCS 330/4) (from Ch. 23, par. 1374)
Sec. 4. The University may make expenditures for buildings and other improvements from appropriations made to the university, which buildings and improvements are upon land the control and legal title to which is in the State of Illinois rather than in the University. Control of buildings erected on such land shall be in the University.
For each dollar of expense incurred by the University of Illinois in providing unreimbursed health care to indigent patients, the State shall reduce the amount of the University's repayment obligation to the State by one dollar.
Gifts for the University of Illinois Hospital may be received and shall be administered in accordance with the terms of the gift.
(Source: P.A. 85‑602.) |
(110 ILCS 330/5) (from Ch. 23, par. 1375)
Sec. 5. The University may establish and collect charges for hospital services rendered in the University of Illinois Hospital or in connection with a University health care program. However, with respect to health care professional services rendered in connection with a University health care program at the University of Illinois Hospital or elsewhere by the Doctors of Medicine, the Doctors of Dentistry, or other health care professionals who are members of the University faculty, charges for such professional services shall not be established or collected by the University or the University of Illinois Hospital but may be by said members of said faculty who render such services under a plan or plans organized and administered by them. All such charges shall be deposited in a special fund or funds in the treasury of the University. The billing, collecting and disbursing of any such fund shall remain exclusively under the supervision and control of such faculty under a plan or plans established by them for the general benefit and support of University programs and activities related to the health professions, provided no charges may be made or collected until such plan has been approved by the University. However, no person shall make or collect a personal or professional charge for his own account for treating, caring for or nursing a patient in the University of Illinois Hospital (other than health care professional services provided at the University of Illinois Hospital by non‑salaried adjunct University faculty who are licensed dentists or physicians licensed to practice medicine in all its branches members) or in connection with a University health care program. Nothing herein shall prevent the University from approving a plan under which any such fund in the University treasury may be utilized in paying the University salaries of such faculty members, or from assisting in the billing and collection of professional charges if all University costs in connection therewith are paid from the charges so collected.
(Source: P.A. 91‑206, eff. 7‑20‑99; 92‑760, eff. 8‑2‑02.) |
(110 ILCS 330/6) (from Ch. 23, par. 1376)
Sec. 6. No otherwise qualified handicapped child receiving special education and related services under Article 14 of The School Code shall solely by reason of his or her handicap be excluded from the participation in or be denied the benefits of or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity provided by the University of Illinois Hospital.
(Source: P.A. 80‑1403.) |
(110 ILCS 330/7)
Sec. 7. Prevention and control for Multidrug‑Resistant Organisms. The University of Illinois Hospital shall develop and implement comprehensive interventions to prevent and control multidrug‑resistant organisms (MDROs), including methicillin‑resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), vancomycin‑resistant enterococci (VRE), and certain gram‑negative bacilli (GNB), that take into consideration guidelines of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the management of MDROs in healthcare settings. The Department of Public Health shall adopt administrative rules that require the University of Illinois Hospital to perform an annual facility‑wide infection control risk assessment and enforce hand hygiene and contact precaution requirements.
(Source: P.A. 95‑282, eff. 8‑20‑07.)
(110 ILCS 330/8)
Sec. 8. Immunization against influenza virus and pneumococcal disease. The University of Illinois Hospital shall adopt an influenza and pneumococcal immunization policy that includes, but need not be limited to, the following:
(1) Procedures for identifying patients age 65 or |
| older and, at the discretion of the facility, other patients at risk. |
|
(2) Procedures for offering immunization against |
| influenza virus when available between September 1 and April 1, and against pneumococcal disease upon admission or discharge, to patients age 65 or older, unless contraindicated. |
|
(3) Procedures for ensuring that patients offered |
| immunization, or their guardians, receive information regarding the risks and benefits of vaccination. |
|
The hospital shall provide a copy of its influenza and pneumococcal immunization policy to the Illinois Department of Public Health upon request.
(Source: P.A. 96‑343, eff. 8‑11‑09; 96‑1000, eff. 7‑2‑10.) |
(110 ILCS 330/9)
Sec. 9. Safe patient handling policy. The University of Illinois Hospital shall cause each of the facilities under its jurisdiction that provide in‑patient care to comply with Section 6.25 of the Hospital Licensing Act.
(Source: P.A. 96‑389, eff. 1‑1‑10; 96‑1000, eff. 7‑2‑10.)|