Illinois Administrative Code › Title 2 - GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION › Part 1125 - PUBLIC INFORMATION, RULEMAKING, AND ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH › Subpart C - ORGANIZATION › Section 1125.340 - Office of Epidemiology and Health Systems Development

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
a) The Office of Epidemiology and Health
				Systems Development consists of the following components: the Division of
				Epidemiology Studies, Division of Facilities Development, Center for Health
				Statistics, Center for Rural Health, and Division of Health Policy.
b) The Office of Epidemiology and Health
				Systems Development coordinates the Illinois Department of Public Health's
				activities to assess the health needs, disease occurrence, and health status of
				Illinois residents. The Office develops and promotes the use of sound and
				systematic knowledge bases in health program management, evaluation, and policy
				development. The Office provides leadership within the Department in
				translating public health data into useful information.
c) The Office leads Department policy
				development and strategic planning functions with other state agencies and
				organizations from the private and volunteer sectors to define and address
				health problems. The Office provides technical assistance to the Governor,
				General Assembly, other Department offices, local health departments, health
				care providers, and the general public. To improve health status, improve
				public health systems, and reduce costs, the Office conducts or coordinates
				data collection and interpretation, policy and financial analysis, community
				health planning, health care facilities planning, and certificate of need
				review. The Office also conducts epidemiologic studies to determine the
				patterns of illness and disease.
d)
				The Office produces the State's annual vital statistics report and publishes
				reports concerning special populations. As Illinois' agent for the
				Federal-State Cooperative for Populations Estimates, the Office produces
				population estimates that are used in defining health indicators and
				determining need for services and appropriate distribution of resources. To
				determine the pattern and characteristics of health behaviors, the Office
				conducts household surveys and provides technical assistance in interpreting
				data for planners and local health departments through the Behavioral Risk
				Factor Surveillance Survey.
e) The
				Office developed and maintains the Illinois Health and Hazardous Substance
				Registry for making decisions on health and public health related to cancer
				incidence, adverse pregnancy outcomes, occupational diseases, and hazardous
				substances.
f) The Office supports
				the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board in administering the Illinois
				certificate of need program to reduce unnecessary health care services and
				costs, in enforcing the Health Care Worker Self-Referral Act [225 ILCS 47 ] to
				provide assistance, and in conducting planning activities related to health
				care facilities. For the certificate of need program, staff personnel review
				applications for construction of health care facilities, acquisition of major
				medical equipment, substantial changes in bed capacity, initiation of new
				services, and elimination of existing services. The Office then makes
				recommendations to the Health Facilities Planning Board for approval or denial
				of the certificate of need.
g) The
				following are mandated responsibilities contained in State statutes:
1) The Illinois Health Facilities Planning
				Act [20 ILCS 3960 ] that created the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board
				and describes its functions, including certificate of need/permit reviews and
				facilities planning.
2) The
				Illinois Health Statistics Act [410 ILCS 520 ] modeled on a widely accepted
				state-level approach that provides for the collection of health data by the
				Department and provides for confidentiality of this data.
3) The Life Care Facilities Act [210 ILCS 40
				) sets forth the requirements for life care contracts that the Department must
				approve and monitor.
4) The
				Illinois Welfare and Rehabilitation Services Planning Act [20 ILCS 10 ]
				provides that Civil Administrative Code of Illinois agencies, including the
				Department of Public Health, develop a Human Services Plan to be presented to
				the General Assembly on April 1 of every odd numbered year.
5) The Illinois Health and Hazardous
				Substances Registry Act [410 ILCS 525 ] establishes a unified statewide project
				to collect, compile and correlate information on public health and hazardous
				substances.
6) The Civil
				Administrative Code of Illinois [20
				ILCS 2310/2310-365 ] allows for the general
				supervision of the interests of the health and lives of the people of the State
				to require hospitals, laboratories, or other facilities in the State to report
				each incidence of cancer diagnosed by the hospitals, laboratories, or
				facilities, along with any other information the Department may require to
				develop a Health and Hazardous Substances Registry under the Illinois Health
				and Hazardous Substances Registry Act.
7) The Lead Poisoning Prevention Act [410
				ILCS 45 ] requires immediate reporting of the existence of any person found or
				suspected to have a level of lead in the blood in excess of the permissible
				limits set forth in regulations adopted by the Department. The names,
				addresses, laboratory results, date of birth, and other information about the
				person are maintained in the Adult Blood Lead Registry.
8) The Developmental Disability Prevention
				Act [410 ILCS 250 ] declares that the policy of the State for the prevention of
				perinatal mortality and conditions leading to developmental disabilities and
				other handicapping disabilities is a high priority for attention. The Adverse
				Pregnancy Outcome Reporting System maintains information regarding perinatal
				mortality and risk conditions.
9)
				The Vital Records Act [410 ILCS 535 ] charges the Department with the
				responsibility of collecting and preserving records of births and deaths of
				Illinois residents and of preparing and publishing reports of vital statistics
				from these records.
10) The
				Alternative Health Care Delivery Act [210 ILCS 3 ] establishes procedures for
				investigating alternative methods of delivering health care services to the
				community.
11) The Health Care
				Worker Self-Referral Act [225 ILCS 47] gives the Illinois Health Facilities
				Planning Board the authority to determine if certain investments by one or more
				health care workers constitutes a conflict of interest.
12) The Civil Administrative Code of Illinois
				[20 ILCS
				2310/2310-65 ] authorizes the Department to conduct
				statewide inventories for existing hospitals, health service facilities, and
				other facilities.
13) The Counties
				Code [55 ILCS 5 /Art. 5, Div. 25] establishes the Illinois Project for Local
				Assessment of Need (IPLAN) compliance requirements for the local health
				departments.
14) The Civil
				Administrative Code of Illinois [20
				ILCS 2310/2310-57 ] authorizes the Department to
				establish a system for the collection of data related to hospital discharge and
				inpatient and outpatient surgery performed at hospitals and licensed ambulatory
				surgical treatment centers.