Bill Text: IL HB0957 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Act on Aging. Requires the Department on Aging, in cooperation with certain agencies, to determine whether any persons (now, only "Alzheimer's Disease and related disorders victims and persons who are deemed as blind or disabled under the Social Security Act") who are in need of long-term care may be satisfactorily cared for in their homes. Vests responsibility for pre-screening in case coordination units or any agencies designated by the Department of Human Services (now, only in case coordination units). Requires all persons who are admitted and remain in a nursing facility for 90 or more days to be re-screened at the end of the 90 day period to assess their continuing need for nursing facility care. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-03-13 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB0957 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HB0957-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 HB0957 Introduced 2/10/2009, by Rep. Julie Hamos SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 105/4.03 from Ch. 23, par. 6104.03
Amends the Illinois Act on Aging. Requires the Department on Aging, in cooperation with certain agencies, to determine whether any persons (now, only "Alzheimer's Disease and related disorders victims and persons who are deemed as blind or disabled under the Social Security Act") who are in need of long-term care may be satisfactorily cared for in their homes. Vests responsibility for pre-screening in case coordination units or any agencies designated by the Department of Human Services (now, only in case coordination units). Requires all persons who are admitted and remain in a nursing facility for 90 or more days to be re-screened at the end of the 90 day period to assess their continuing need for nursing facility care. Effective immediately.
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AN ACT concerning state government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Act on the Aging is amended by
changing Section 4.03 as follows:
(20 ILCS 105/4.03) (from Ch. 23, par. 6104.03)
Sec. 4.03. The Department on Aging, in cooperation with the
Department of Human Services and any other appropriate State,
local or federal agency, shall, without regard to income
guidelines, establish a nursing home prescreening program to
determine whether any persons Alzheimer's Disease and related
disorders victims, and persons who are deemed as blind or
disabled as defined by the Social Security Act and who are in
need of long term care, may be satisfactorily cared for in
their homes through the use of home and community based
services. Responsibility for prescreening shall be vested with
case coordination units or any agencies designated by the
Department. Prescreening shall occur: (i) when hospital
discharge planners have advised the case coordination unit of
the imminent risk of nursing home placement of a patient who
meets the above criteria and in advance of discharge of the
patient; or (ii) when a case coordination unit has been advised
of the imminent risk of nursing home placement of an individual

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in the community. The individual who is prescreened shall be
informed of all appropriate options, including placement in a
nursing home and the availability of in-home and
community-based services and shall be advised of her or his
right to refuse nursing home, in-home, community-based, or all
services. All persons admitted to a nursing home facility who
remain in the facility for a period of 90 days shall be
re-screened at the end of the 90 day period to assess their
continuing need for nursing facility care and shall be advised
of all other available care options. Case coordination units
under contract with the Department may charge a fee for the
prescreening provided under this Section and the fee shall be
no greater than the cost of such services to the case
coordination unit. At the time of each prescreening, case
coordination units shall provide information regarding the
Office of State Long Term Care Ombudsman's Residents Right to
Know database as authorized in subsection (c-5) of Section
4.04.
(Source: P.A. 95-80, eff. 8-13-07; 95-823, eff. 1-1-09; revised
9-5-08.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.