Illinois Administrative Code › Title 2 - GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION › Part 1125 - PUBLIC INFORMATION, RULEMAKING, AND ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH › Subpart C - ORGANIZATION › Section 1125.320 - Office of Health Care Regulation

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
a) The Office of Health Care Regulation is
				composed of the Division of Administration and Technical Support, Bureau of
				Long-Term Care, Bureau of Hospitals and Ambulatory Services, Division of
				Emergency Medical Services and Highway Safety, and the Division of
				Administrative Rules and Procedures. The Bureau of Hospitals and Ambulatory
				Services is composed of the Division of Health Care Facilities and Programs and
				the Central Complaint Registry. The Bureau of Long-Term Care is composed of the
				Division of Long-Term Care Field Operations, the Division of Long-Term Care
				Quality Assurance, and the Education and Training Section. Each of these
				Divisions is responsible for administering a variety of regulatory public
				health programs that are directed towards ensuring quality care in health care
				facilities and health care delivery organizations.
b) The following regulatory, preventive, and
				enforcement activities are administered by Divisions within the Office of
				Health Care Regulation:
1) Conduct
				inspections, including complaint investigations, for State licensure and
				Medicare and Medicaid certification for long-term care facilities to ensure
				that services, staffing, and physical plant standards are met.
2) Conduct inspections, including complaint
				investigations, for State licensure and Medicare and Medicaid certification for
				hospitals to ensure that services, staffing, and physical plant standards are
				met.
3) Conduct inspections,
				including complaint investigations, for State licensure and Medicare
				certification for home health agencies to ensure that services and staffing
				standards are met.
4) Conduct
				inspections, including complaint investigations, for State licensure and
				Medicare certification for ambulatory surgical treatment centers (ASTC) to
				ensure that services, staffing, and physical plant standards are met.
5) Conduct inspections, including complaint
				investigations, for Medicare certification for physical therapists in
				independent practice, outpatient physical therapy programs, outpatient speech
				pathology programs, portable x-ray providers, and rural health clinics to
				ensure that services and staffing standards are met.
6) Conduct inspections, including complaint
				investigations, for Medicare certification for end stage renal dialysis centers
				(ESRD) to ensure that services, staffing, and physical plant standards are
				met.
7) Conduct inspections,
				including complaint investigations, for State licensure and Medicare
				certification for hospice programs and hospice residences to ensure that
				services, staffing, and physical plant standards are met.
8) Regulate health maintenance
				organizations.
9) To ensure
				services, staffing, and physical plant standards are met, conduct inspections,
				including complaint investigations, for State licensure under the Alternative
				Health Care Delivery Act [210 ILCS 2 ] for the following authorized models:
				subacute care hospital demonstration programs, postsurgical recovery care
				center demonstration programs, community-based residential rehabilitation
				center demonstration programs, and children's respite care center demonstration
				programs.
10) Conduct inspections,
				including complaint investigations, for State licensure for community living
				facilities and supportive residences to ensure that services, staffing, and
				physical plant standards are met.
11) Conduct inspections, including complaint
				investigations, for certification of clinical laboratories, blood banks, and
				tissue and sperm banks to ensure that services, staffing, and physical plant
				standards are met.
12) Review and
				approve construction plans for health care facilities to ensure that physical
				plant standards are met.
13) Serve
				as the agent of the Health Care Financing Administration, Department of Health
				and Human Services, to determine compliance with Federal Conditions of
				Participation under the Medicare program and as the agent of the Department of
				Public Aid to determine compliance under the Medicaid program.
14) Approve training programs and regulate
				the training of certified nursing assistants.
15) Maintain and report the status of
				individuals on the Nurse Aide Registry.
16) Administer the Health Care Worker
				Background Check Act [225 ILCS 46 ] for health care facilities licensed by the
				Department.
17) Inspect and license
				ambulance providers and Specialized Emergency Medical Services Vehicle
				Programs.
18) License Emergency
				Medical Technicians (EMT).
19)
				Register First Responders and Emergency Medical Dispatchers.
20) Recognize Poison Control
				Centers.
21) Administer the rural
				ambulance grant.
22) Inspect and
				designate trauma centers.
23)
				Establish Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Regions, approve EMS regional plans,
				and approve EMS Systems.
24)
				Conduct inspections, including complaint investigations, for State licensure of
				freestanding emergency centers to ensure that services, staffing, and physical
				plant standards are met.
25)
				Approve EMS Lead Instructors, Pre-hospital Registered Nurses, and Emergency
				Communications Registered Nurses.
26) Provide certification of Trauma Nurse
				Specialists and designation of Trauma Nurse Specialist training
				sites.
27) Provide restaurants with
				posters that demonstrate choke-saving procedures.
28) Maintain a 24-hour-a-day hotline to
				receive complaints about licensed or certified health care
				facilities.
29) Collect and
				disseminate data related to trauma, head and spinal cord injuries, and violent
				injuries.
30) Establish licensing
				standards for the programs and facilities listed in subsection (b)(1) through
				(29).
31) Maintain a pre-hospital
				computerized reporting system.
32)
				Administer a comprehensive pediatric emergency care system.
33) Address issues related to State medical
				disasters and emergency preparedness and responses to biochemical threats and
				weapons of mass destruction.