210 ILCS 3/1
Short title
Short title. This Act may be cited as the Alternative Health Care Delivery Act. (Source: P.A. 87-1188.)
Illinois Compiled Statutes 210 ILCS 3 — Alternative Health Care Delivery Act.
Illinois · statute · 210 ILCS 3 · 21 active provisions
210 ILCS 3/5
Purpose
Purpose. The General Assembly finds that many consumers have limited access to needed health care. Other consumers have limited health care choices. Consumers of health care also experience high out-of-pocket costs for health care, and the State as a whole experiences high aggregate health care costs. The General Assem…
210 ILCS 3/10
Definitions
Definitions. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires: "Ambulatory surgical treatment center" or "ASTC" means any institution, place, or building licensed under the Ambulatory Surgical Treatment Center Act. "Alternative health care model" means a facility or program authorized under Section 35 of this Act. "B…
210 ILCS 3/15
License required
License required. No health care facility or program that meets the definition and scope of an alternative health care model shall operate as such unless it is a participant in a demonstration program under this Act and licensed by the Department as an alternative health care model. The provisions of this Act concernin…
210 ILCS 3/20
Board responsibilities
Board responsibilities. The State Board of Health shall have the responsibilities set forth in this Section. (a) The Board shall investigate new health care delivery models and recommend to the Governor and the General Assembly, through the Department, those models that should be authorized as alternative health care m…
210 ILCS 3/25
Department responsibilities
Department responsibilities. The Department shall have the responsibilities set forth in this Section. (a) The Department shall adopt rules for each alternative health care model authorized under this Act that shall include but not be limited to the following: (1) Further definition of the alternative health care model…
210 ILCS 3/30
Demonstration program requirements
Demonstration program requirements. The requirements set forth in this Section shall apply to demonstration programs. (a) (Blank). (a-5) There shall be no more than the total number of postsurgical recovery care centers with a certificate of need for beds as of January 1, 2008. (a-10) There shall be no more than a tota…
210 ILCS 3/35
Alternative health care models authorized
Alternative health care models authorized. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, alternative health care models described in this Section may be established on a demonstration basis. (1) (Blank). (2) Alternative health care delivery model; postsurgical recovery care center. A postsurgical recovery care center…
210 ILCS 3/35.2
Maternal milk donation education
Maternal milk donation education. (a) To ensure an adequate supply of pasteurized donor human milk for premature infants in Illinois, a birth center with obstetrical service beds shall provide information and instructional materials to parents of each newborn, upon discharge from the birth center, regarding the option…
210 ILCS 3/35.5
Closed captioning required
Closed captioning required. An alternative health care model licensed under this Act must make reasonable efforts to have activated at all times the closed captioning feature on a television in a common area provided for use by the general public or in a patient's room, or enable the closed captioning feature when requ…
210 ILCS 3/36
Use of name; patient transfers; consulting committee
Use of name; patient transfers; consulting committee. No facility or person shall hold itself out to the public as a "recovery care center" or "postsurgical recovery care center" unless it is licensed as a postsurgical recovery care center under this Act. The Department shall establish by rule criteria for patient tran…
210 ILCS 3/40
Demonstration program funding
Demonstration program funding. The Regulatory Evaluation and Basic Enforcement Fund is created in the State treasury to collect application fees, renewal fees, and fines collected under this Act. Moneys shall be appropriated from the Fund to the Department to implement its administrative, licensure, and evaluation func…
210 ILCS 3/45
License denial, suspension, or revocation
License denial, suspension, or revocation. A license may be denied, suspended, or revoked, or the renewal of a license may be denied, for any of the following reasons: (1) Violation of any provision of this Act or the rules adopted by the Department under this Act. (2) Conviction of the owner or operator of the alterna…
210 ILCS 3/50
Investigation of applicant or licensee; notice
Investigation of applicant or licensee; notice. The Department may on its own motion, and shall on the verified complaint in writing of any person setting forth facts which if proven would constitute grounds for the denial of an application for a license, refusal to renew a license, suspension of a license, or revocati…
210 ILCS 3/55
Hearings
Hearings. The hearing requested under Sec. 50 shall be conducted by the Director or an individual designated in writing by the Director as a hearing officer. The Director or hearing officer may compel, by subpoena or subpoena duces tecum, the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of books and papers.…
210 ILCS 3/60
Final orders
Final orders. The Director or hearing officer shall make findings of fact and conclusions of law in the matters that are the subject of the hearing, and the Director shall render a decision, or the hearing officer a proposal for decision, within 45 days after the termination of the hearing unless additional time is req…
210 ILCS 3/65
Judicial review; deposit for costs
Judicial review; deposit for costs. (a) All final administrative decisions of the Department under this Act shall be subject to judicial review under the provisions of the Administrative Review Law and the rules adopted under that Law. "Administrative decision" is defined as in Section 3-101 of the Code of Civil Proced…
210 ILCS 3/70
Administrative rules
Administrative rules. The Illinois Administrative Procedure Act is expressly adopted and shall apply to all rules of the Department adopted under this Act. (Source: P.A. 87-1188.)
210 ILCS 3/75
Violations; criminal penalties
Violations; criminal penalties. Any person opening, conducting, or maintaining an alternative health care model without a license issued under this Act shall be guilty of a business offense punishable upon conviction by a fine of $10,000. Each day the violation continues shall constitute a separate offense. (Source: P.…
210 ILCS 3/80
Injunction
Injunction. The operation or maintenance of an alternative health care model in violation of this Act or the rules adopted under this Act is declared to be inimical to the public welfare. The Director, in addition to other remedies provided in this Act, may bring an action in the name of the People of the State, throug…
210 ILCS 3/99
This Act shall take effect upon becoming law
This Act shall take effect upon becoming law. (Source: P.A. 87-1188.)