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Short title. This Act may be cited as the Hospital Emergency Service Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)
Illinois · statute · 210 ILCS 80 · 7 active provisions
Short title. This Act may be cited as the Hospital Emergency Service Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)
Requirements to provide emergency medical care. (a) Every hospital required to be licensed by the Department of Public Health pursuant to the Hospital Licensing Act which provides general medical and surgical hospital services, except long-term acute care hospitals and rehabilitation hospitals identified in Section 1.3…
Long-term acute care hospitals and rehabilitation hospitals. For the purpose of this Act, general acute care hospitals designated by Medicare as long-term acute care hospitals and rehabilitation hospitals are not required to provide hospital emergency services described in Section 1 of this Act. Hospitals defined in th…
The provisions of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act are hereby expressly adopted and shall apply to all administrative rules and procedures of the Department of Public Health under this Act, except that Section 5-35 of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act relating to procedures for rule-making does not app…
Any hospital or other person violating any of the provisions of this Act or refusing to perform any duties imposed by this Act shall be guilty of a business offense and subject to a fine not exceeding $10,000 for each violation, and any fine imposed shall be paid into the general corporate funds of the city, incorporat…
Department investigations. The Department shall also have the authority to investigate violations of this Act, which may include a medical clinical review by a physician, and to issue a minimum monetary penalty of $50,000 for violating this Act. The Department shall adopt rules for purposes of enforcing this Act and id…
Severability. The provisions of this Act are severable under Section 1.31 of the Statute on Statutes. (Source: P.A. 103-784, eff. 8-7-24.)