Illinois Administrative Code › Title 77 - PUBLIC HEALTH › Part 250 - HOSPITAL LICENSING REQUIREMENTS › Subpart G - EMERGENCY SERVICES › Section 250.720 - General Requirements

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
a)
				Each hospital shall provide adequate facilities for the provision of immediate
				life saving measures.
b) Policies
				and procedures governing the acceptance and care of emergency patients shall be
				established. These shall be in accordance with the category of emergency
				services established in the hospital. Specific policies shall be adopted and
				implemented in regard to rendering emergency care in the hospital's emergency
				department, in the hospital but away from the emergency department, and within
				proximity to the hospital. In developing these policies, the hospital shall
				take into consideration any available national or state guidelines on the
				standard of practice in this area. These policies shall be included as a part
				of any initial employee orientation/training and shall be reviewed annually
				with staff.
c) An appropriate
				record shall be maintained on each patient who presents for emergency
				services.
d) Appropriate supplies
				and equipment shall be available and ready for use.
e) This Section shall not be construed to
				affect hospital-patient arrangements regarding payment for care.
f) Hospitals providing obstetric services
				shall have a
written policy and conduct continuing education
				yearly
(calendar)
for providers and staff of obstetric
				medicine, and of the emergency department, and other staff that may care for
				pregnant or postpartum women. The written policy and continuing education shall
				include management of severe maternal hypertension and obstetric hemorrhage,
				addressing airway emergencies experienced during childbirth, and management of
				other leading causes of maternal mortality for units that care for pregnant or
				postpartum women
. Hospitals providing obstetric services shall
demonstrate compliance with these written policy and education
				requirements.
(Section 2310-222(b) of the Department of Public Health
				Powers and Duties Law) (See also Section
				250.1830(n) and
				(o)).
g) A REH shall have an agreement with at
				least one licensed and Medicare-certified hospital that is a level I or level
				II trauma center for the referral and transfer of patients requiring emergency
				medical care beyond the capabilities of the REH.
h)
The use of latex gloves
				by
hospital staff
is prohibited. If a crisis exists that
				interrupts
a hospital's
ability to reliably source nonlatex
				gloves,
hospital staff
may use latex gloves upon a patient.
				However, during the crisis,
hospital staff
shall prioritize,
				to the extent feasible, using nonlatex gloves for the treatment of any patient
				with self-identified allergy to latex; and any patient upon whom the latex
				gloves are to be used who is unconscious or otherwise physically unable to
				communicate and whose medical history lacks sufficient information to indicate
				whether or not the patient has a latex allergy.
(Sections 10(c) and 15
				of the Latex Glove Ban Act)