Bill Text: IL SB3056 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning freestanding emergency centers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-08 - Referred to Assignments [SB3056 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-SB3056-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 SB3056 Introduced 2/8/2010, by Sen. Don Harmon SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
210 ILCS 50/32.5
Amends the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning freestanding emergency centers.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning regulation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act
is amended by changing Section 32.5 as follows:
(210 ILCS 50/32.5)
Sec. 32.5. Freestanding Emergency Center.
(a) The The Department shall issue an annual Freestanding
Emergency Center (FEC) license to any facility that has
received a permit from the Illinois Health Facilities and
Services Review Planning Board to establish a Freestanding
Emergency Center if the application for the permit has been
deemed complete by the Department of Public Health by March 1,
2009, and:
(1) is located: (A) in a municipality with a population
of 75,000 or fewer inhabitants; (B) within 20 miles of the
hospital that owns or controls the FEC; and (C) within 20
miles of the Resource Hospital affiliated with the FEC as
part of the EMS System;
(2) is wholly owned or controlled by an Associate or
Resource Hospital, but is not a part of the hospital's
physical plant;
(3) meets the standards for licensed FECs, adopted by

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rule of the Department, including, but not limited to:
(A) facility design, specification, operation, and
maintenance standards;
(B) equipment standards; and
(C) the number and qualifications of emergency
medical personnel and other staff, which must include
at least one board certified emergency physician
present at the FEC 24 hours per day.
(4) limits its participation in the EMS System strictly
to receiving a limited number of BLS runs by emergency
medical vehicles according to protocols developed by the
Resource Hospital within the FEC's designated EMS System
and approved by the Project Medical Director and the
Department;
(5) provides comprehensive emergency treatment
services, as defined in the rules adopted by the Department
pursuant to the Hospital Licensing Act, 24 hours per day,
on an outpatient basis;
(6) provides an ambulance and maintains on site
ambulance services staffed with paramedics 24 hours per
day;
(7) (blank);
(8) complies with all State and federal patient rights
provisions, including, but not limited to, the Emergency
Medical Treatment Act and the federal Emergency Medical
Treatment and Active Labor Act;

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(9) maintains a communications system that is fully
integrated with its Resource Hospital within the FEC's
designated EMS System;
(10) reports to the Department any patient transfers
from the FEC to a hospital within 48 hours of the transfer
plus any other data determined to be relevant by the
Department;
(11) submits to the Department, on a quarterly basis,
the FEC's morbidity and mortality rates for patients
treated at the FEC and other data determined to be relevant
by the Department;
(12) does not describe itself or hold itself out to the
general public as a full service hospital or hospital
emergency department in its advertising or marketing
activities;
(13) complies with any other rules adopted by the
Department under this Act that relate to FECs;
(14) passes the Department's site inspection for
compliance with the FEC requirements of this Act;
(15) submits a copy of the permit issued by the Health
Facilities and Services Review Board indicating that the
facility has complied with the Illinois Health Facilities
Planning Act with respect to the health services to be
provided at the facility;
(16) submits an application for designation as an FEC
in a manner and form prescribed by the Department by rule;

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and
(17) pays the annual license fee as determined by the
Department by rule.
(b) The Department shall:
(1) annually inspect facilities of initial FEC
applicants and licensed FECs, and issue annual licenses to
or annually relicense FECs that satisfy the Department's
licensure requirements as set forth in subsection (a);
(2) suspend, revoke, refuse to issue, or refuse to
renew the license of any FEC, after notice and an
opportunity for a hearing, when the Department finds that
the FEC has failed to comply with the standards and
requirements of the Act or rules adopted by the Department
under the Act;
(3) issue an Emergency Suspension Order for any FEC
when the Director or his or her designee has determined
that the continued operation of the FEC poses an immediate
and serious danger to the public health, safety, and
welfare. An opportunity for a hearing shall be promptly
initiated after an Emergency Suspension Order has been
issued; and
(4) adopt rules as needed to implement this Section.
(Source: P.A. 95-584, eff. 8-31-07; 96-23, eff. 6-30-09; 96-31,
eff. 6-30-09; revised 8-20-09.)