Bill Text: IL HB2706 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Amends the Hospital Report Card Act. In a provision that requires the Department of Public Health to publish risk-adjusted mortality rates for hospitals, requires the published rates to include the risk-adjusted mortality rates for cardiovascular complications and diabetes-related hypoglycemia complications.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-08-10 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 99-0326 [HB2706 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-HB2706-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Amends the Hospital Report Card Act. In a provision that requires the Department of Public Health to publish risk-adjusted mortality rates for hospitals, requires the published rates to include the risk-adjusted mortality rates for cardiovascular complications and diabetes-related hypoglycemia complications.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-08-10 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 99-0326 [HB2706 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-HB2706-Introduced.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning regulation.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Hospital Report Card Act is amended by | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | changing Section 30 as follows:
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6 | (210 ILCS 86/30)
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7 | Sec. 30. Department reports. The Department of Public | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | Health shall
annually submit
to the General Assembly a report | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | summarizing the quarterly reports by health
service area
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10 | shall publish that report on its website. The Department of | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | Public Health
may issue
quarterly informational bulletins at | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | its discretion, summarizing all or part of
the information
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13 | submitted in these quarterly reports. The Department shall also | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | publish
risk-adjusted mortality
rates , which shall include, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | but not be limited to, the risk-adjusted mortality rates for | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | cardiovascular complications and diabetes-related hypoglycemia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | complications, for each hospital based upon information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | hospitals have already submitted
to the
Department pursuant to | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | their obligations to report health care information
under other | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | public
health reporting laws and regulations outside of this | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | Act. The published
mortality rates must
comply with the | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | hospital data publication process contained in subsection (c)
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23 | of Section 25 of this Act.
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1 | (Source: P.A. 93-563, eff. 1-1-04.)
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