55 ILCS 5/5-23013
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 5 - Powers And Duties Of County Boards

 (from Ch. 34, par. 5-23013)Sec. 5-23013.     Services; regulations.     Every sanitarium board established  under this Division shall provide sanitarium care and clinical and follow-up  services for the benefit of such of the inhabitants of the county who may be  afflicted with tuberculosis. Those inhabitants shall be entitled to occupancy,  nursing, care, medicines and attendance, according to the rules and regulations  prescribed by the board of directors. The board of directors may adopt  reasonable rules and regulations requiring payment for services by persons with  private health insurance and persons entitled to medical assistance under the  Illinois Public Aid Code.  The board of directors may adopt reasonable rules  and regulations concerning the use of the facilities established pursuant to  this Division in order to render the use of these facilities of the greatest  benefit to the greatest number, and the board of directors may exclude from the  use of the sanitarium any and all persons who willfully violate the board's  rules or regulations. The board may not, however, prescribe rules and  regulations which conflict with Section 5-23014 of this Division, and a  determination of whether a person is an inhabitant or resident of the county  for purposes of this Division shall be based on Section 5-23014. Except as  authorized and permitted by Section 5-23011 no person afflicted with  tuberculosis may be compelled to enter a sanitarium, or any of its branches,  dispensaries, or  other auxiliary institutions without his consent in writing  first having been obtained, or, in case of a minor or one under a disability,  the consent in writing of the parent or the parents, guardian or conservator,  as the case may be. The board of directors shall upon request or by consent of  the persons afflicted, or of his or her parent or guardian extend the benefits  and privileges of the institution, under proper rules and regulations, into the  homes of persons afflicted with tuberculosis, shall furnish nurses,  instruction, medicines, attendance, and all other aid necessary to effect a  cure, and shall do all things in and about the treatment and care of persons so  afflicted, which will have a tendency to effect a cure of the person or persons  afflicted with tuberculosis and to eradicate tuberculosis in the county  including the discovery of undiagnosed tuberculosis in the county. Boards of  directors shall provide out-patient clinical and follow-up services to  tuberculosis patients, in accordance with minimum standards prescribed  therefor, by the director of the Department of Public Health. The board of  directors may make such arrangements and agreements with public or private  health agencies for cooperation and assistance in providing case-finding  services and out-patient clinical and follow-up services as it considers  necessary or desirable. The board of directors may extend the privileges and  use of the sanitarium and treatment to persons so afflicted, residing outside  of the county, upon such terms and conditions as the board of directors may  from time to time by its rules and regulations prescribe consistent with  Section 5-23014.Boards of directors may use funds secured from taxes levied under  Sections 1 and 2 in providing sanitarium care of tuberculosis patients in  private or public sanitariums. No county that has voted for the  establishment and maintenance of a county tuberculosis sanitarium is  prevented from using funds acquired by levy of annual tax for such purpose  for the care of tuberculosis patients in private or public sanitariums by  reason of Sections 5-23029 and 5-23030 or Sections 5-23039 and 5-23040  authorizing levy of an annual tax for the care and treatment of persons  afflicted with tuberculosis; but if a vote under Sections 5-23029 and  5-23030 or Sections 5-23039 and 5-23040 authorizes the levy of an annual  tax for the care and treatment of persons afflicted with tuberculosis, then  the levy of an annual tax for the establishment and maintenance of a county  tuberculosis sanitarium under Sections 5-23001 and 5-23006 shall be  discontinued without submission of the question of discontinuing the levy  of a tax under Sections 5-23001 and 5-23006 to a vote of the electors.    (Source: P.A. 88-434.)