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Short title. This Act may be cited as the Abuse Prevention Review Team Act. (Source: P.A. 93-577, eff. 8-21-03.)
Illinois · statute · 210 ILCS 28 · 15 active provisions
Short title. This Act may be cited as the Abuse Prevention Review Team Act. (Source: P.A. 93-577, eff. 8-21-03.)
State policy. The following statements are the policy of this State: (1) Every nursing home resident is entitled to live in safety and decency and to receive competent and respectful care that meets the requirements of State and federal law. (2) Responding to sexual assaults of nursing home residents and to unnecessary…
Definitions. As used in this Act, unless the context requires otherwise: "Department" means the Department of Public Health. "Director" means the Director of Public Health. "Executive Council" means the Illinois Residential Health Care Facility Resident Sexual Assault and Death Review Teams Executive Council. "Resident…
Residential health care facility resident sexual assault and death review teams; establishment. (a) The Director, in consultation with the Executive Council and with law enforcement agencies and other professionals who work in the field of investigating, treating, or preventing nursing home resident abuse or neglect in…
Reviews of nursing home resident sexual assaults and deaths. (a) Every case of sexual assault of a nursing home resident that the Department determined to be valid shall be reviewed by the review team for the region that has primary case management responsibility. (b) Every death of a nursing home resident shall be rev…
Review team access to information. (a) The Department shall provide to a review team, on the request of the review team chairperson, all records and information in the Department's possession that are relevant to the review team's review of a sexual assault or death described in subsection (b) of Section 20, including…
Public access to information. (a) Meetings of the review teams and the Executive Council shall be closed to the public. Meetings of the review teams and the Executive Council are not subject to the Open Meetings Act, as provided in that Act. (b) Records and information provided to a review team and the Executive Counci…
Indemnification. The State shall indemnify and hold harmless members of a review team and the Executive Council for all their acts, omissions, decisions, or other conduct arising out of the scope of their service on the review team or Executive Council, except those involving willful or wanton misconduct. The method of…
Executive Council. (a) The Illinois Residential Health Care Facility Resident Sexual Assault and Death Review Teams Executive Council, consisting of the chairperson of each review team established under Section 15, is the coordinating and oversight body for residential health care facility resident sexual assault and d…
Department's annual report. The Department shall include in its annual Long-Term Care Report to the General Assembly a report of the activities of the review teams and Executive Council, the results of the review teams' findings, recommendations made to the Department by the review teams and the Executive Council, and,…
Funding. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, to the extent permitted by federal law, the Department shall use moneys from fines paid by facilities licensed under the Nursing Home Care Act, the Specialized Mental Health Rehabilitation Act of 2013, the ID/DD Community Care Act, or the MC/DD Act for violating requ…
Relationship to other Acts. Nothing in this Act is intended to conflict with or duplicate provisions of other Acts or rules implementing other Acts. (Source: P.A. 93-577, eff. 8-21-03.)
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Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law. (Source: P.A. 93-577, eff. 8-21-03.)