Illinois Administrative Code › Title 77 - PUBLIC HEALTH › Part 545 - SEXUAL ASSAULT SURVIVORS EMERGENCY TREATMENT CODE › Section 545.50 - Areawide Sexual Assault Treatment Plans

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
a)
Hospitals and approved pediatric
			 health care facilities in the area to be served may develop and participate in
			 areawide plans that shall describe the medical forensic services to sexual
			 assault survivors that each participating hospital and approved pediatric
			 health care facility has agreed to make available. Each hospital and approved
			 pediatric health care facility participating in such a plan shall provide
			 services as it is designated to provide in the plan agreed upon by the
			 participants. An areawide plan may include treatment hospitals, treatment
			 hospitals with approved pediatric transfer, transfer hospitals, approved
			 pediatric health care facilities, or out-of-state hospitals as provided in
			 Section 5.4 of the Act.
(Section 3 of the Act)
b)
All areawide plans shall be
			 submitted to the Department for approval prior to be coming effective.
(Section 3 of the Act)
c)
The Department will approve a proposed plan if it finds that the
			 minimum requirements set forth in Section 5 of the Act
and Section
			 545.60
			 of this Part are met
and implementation of the plan would provide for
			 appropriate medical forensic services,
pursuant to this Part,
for the people of the area to be served.
(Section 3 of the
			 Act)
d) Each plan shall include a
			 description of the role of each hospital or pediatric health care facility
			 participating in the plan, as well as the individual treatment or transfer
			 plans for each hospital or pediatric health care facility, in accordance with
			 Section 545.60, 545.62, 545.63, 545.64 or 545.65.
e) Areawide plans shall conform to the
			 federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act.
f) Areawide plans shall incorporate all of
			 the requirements set forth in Section
			 545.55
			 for the treatment and transfer of pediatric sexual assault survivors.
g)
Until January 1, 2022, the
			 areawide treatment plan may include a written agreement, with a treatment
			 hospital with approved pediatric transfer that is geographically closer than
			 other hospitals providing medical forensic services to sexual assault survivors
			 13 years of age or older, stating that the treatment hospital with approved
			 pediatric transfer will provide medical services to sexual assault survivors 13
			 years of age or older who are transferred from the transfer hospital. If the
			 areawide treatment plan includes a written agreement with a treatment hospital
			 with approved pediatric transfer, it must also include a written agreement with
			 a treatment hospital stating that the treatment hospital will provide medical
			 forensic services to sexual assault survivors under 13 years of age who are
			 transferred from the transfer hospital
. (Section 2(a) of the
			 Act)
h) Each plan shall indicate
			 which facility participating in the areawide treatment plan is responsible,
			 upon the completion of medical forensic services, for transporting the sexual
			 assault survivor back to the original location where the individual initially
			 presented seeking medical forensic services, unless transportation is arranged
			 by the survivor or by the survivor's non-offending parent or legal
			 guardian.